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    60 feared dead in Ukraine school bombed by Russia, governor says

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    Sunil Aswal
    May9/ 2022
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    "Sixty people were likely to have died under the rubble of buildings," Serhiy Gaidai, governor of the Luhansk region, said.

    KYIV : Two people have been killed in the Russian bombing of a school in the Ukrainian village of Bilohorivka and 60 who remained under debris are feared dead, Serhiy Gaidai, governor of the Luhansk region, said on Sunday.

    Gaidai said Russia dropped a bomb on Saturday afternoon on the school where about 90 people were sheltering. Thirty people have been rescued.

    "Seven of them were injured," Gaidai wrote on wrote in a post on the Telegram messaging app. "Sixty people were likely to have died under the rubble of buildings."—REUTERS