At least 35 people were killed and 100 injured Friday, April 8 after two rockets fell on the Kramatorsk station in eastern Ukraine, through which thousands of people have been evacuated for several days.
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A humanitarian volunteer helping to evacuate the bodies told AFP that at least 35 people had died.
An AFP journalist saw the bodies, in body bags and under tarpaulins, of at least 20 people.
Present there earlier, he had noticed that hundreds of people still hoped to find a train there to leave the city, under threat of a major Russian offensive.
The boss of the Ukrainian railway company Ukrzaliznytsia, Oleksandre Kamychine, spoke to him of 30 dead and more than 100 injured, denouncing on his Telegram channel a "
deliberate strike
".
Four cars were burned in front of the station.
The interior and entrance to the station were covered in blood, with long marks stretching across the pavement in places and rows of benches charred.
On the forecourt in front of the station, the remains of a missile were still visible, on which one could read in Russian "
For our children
".
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Abandoned luggage and countless debris and shards of broken glass also littered the forecourt and surroundings of the station.
The bodies, deposited in front of small shops adjoining the station, were then evacuated in army trucks, according to the AFP correspondent.
“
Two rockets fell on Kramatorsk station
,” the Ukrainian railway company initially announced.