Izium: Five health agency workers killed in Russian guided-bomb strike
A Russian strike with guided aerial bombs on Izium in Kharkiv region killed five employees of the local disease control office. Fourteen people were injured, and Oct. 31 has been declared a day of mourning.
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The death toll from the Russian air strike on the city of Izium in Ukraine's Kharkiv region on Oct. 29 has risen to five. Regional military administration head Oleh Syniehubov announced the toll on Telegram, Interfax-Ukraine reported. The dead were employees of the Izium branch of the Kharkiv Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Fourteen people were injured, and two were pulled from the rubble.
According to Ukrainian authorities, the city was hit with guided aerial bombs. Prosecutors identified a FAB-500 bomb fitted with a glide and guidance module, Ukrinform reported. A five-storey building was struck, with damage from the first to the fifth floor. Four deaths had initially been reported.
Syniehubov called the deaths of the health workers a "terrible and irreparable loss" for the entire medical community of the region. Izium's city military administration declared Saturday, Oct. 31, a day of mourning.