Drone Strike on Synelnykove Kills 3, Wounds 12 in Dnipropetrovsk Region

A Russian drone strike on Synelnykove in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region on Saturday, 24 October, killed three people and wounded 12, regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha reported.

Hanzha said Russian forces hit the town with a drone, setting fire to the fourth floor of an apartment building. A shop and several cars were also damaged. Among the wounded is an 11-year-old girl. All of the victims were taken to hospital, and two of them, a 50-year-old woman and a 70-year-old man, were in serious condition.

Casualty count rose through the evening

The number of wounded was revised upward as the day went on and reached 12. In a later update, Hanzha said five of the injured were in hospital: two women and a man were in serious condition and were undergoing surgery. After the operations, they are to be transferred to the regional hospital in Dnipro.

A region under fire all day

According to the regional military administration, Russian forces attacked six districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region more than 60 times on Saturday, using drones and artillery. Earlier the same day a drone hit a grocery store in the Nikopol district; three men and a 14-year-old boy were hurt in that attack.

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