Death Toll from Chaplyne Train Attack Rises to 25

A Russian attack that took place on Ukraine’s Independence Day on Wednesday has killed 25 civilians when missiles struck a railway station and a residential area in eastern Ukraine, officials in Kyiv said.

The death toll rose from an initially reported 22 after three more bodies were retrieved from the rubble in the town of Chaplyne as rescue operations ended, Ukrainian presidential aide Kyrylo Tymoshenko said.

Residents of the small town, located some 145km (90 miles) west of Russian-occupied Donetsk, grieved for their loved ones amid the rubble of their wrecked homes.

Local resident Sergiy lost his 11-year-old son in the attack. “We looked for him there in the ruins, and he was lying here. Nobody knew that he was here. Nobody knew,” he said as he crouched next to his covered body.

Aljazeera /Shakirat Sadiq