Two women and a seven-year-old girl were killed on Tuesday in a bomb attack on the town in the Sumy region on the border with Russia in northeastern Ukraine, the regional prosecutor’s office said.
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The bodies of the two women and two injured men were recovered from the rubble of damaged houses in the town of Seredyna-Bouda, the prosecutor’s office said on its Facebook page.
The girl and her stepfather were in their car at the time of the strike and were both injured, prosecutors added. “The girl later succumbed to her injuries in the hospital,” said the same source.
According to preliminary information, the bomb attack was carried out using a multiple rocket launcher system at around 12:30 p.m. local time (10:30 GMT), the public prosecutor’s office said.
“At least five houses were destroyed,” he continued, posting photos of buildings with destroyed walls or roofs.
Ukraine accuses Russia of regularly bombing its border towns since Moscow began invading the neighboring country in February 2022, large areas in the east and south of which are occupied by Moscow’s troops.