A mortar hit a large hospital in the troubled Ukrainian city of Donetsk Thursday, killing at least one person, as government forces tighten their grip on the pro-Russian rebel stronghold.
“There was a sudden explosion, a mortar round flew through the window, all the equipment was destroyed,” said Anna Kravtsova, a doctor at the Vishnevskiy Hospital. “They killed one person, and one person was injured and taken away.” […]
Kravtsova said that the person who was killed was a patient of the hospital. Donetsk city council spokesman Maxim Rovensky confirmed to the AP that one person had been killed, and said five were wounded.
The incident follows a night of shelling in another central neighbourhood. The city council said in a statement posted on its website that three people had been killed and five wounded, and several residential buildings destroyed.
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