On the evening of 17 November, a densely populated area in Sumy city, northeastern Ukraine, was bombed. The explosion struck a courtyard surrounded by residential buildings, damaging 13 structures and dozens of apartments.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency ambulance teams provided medical assistance to injured residents. According to preliminary information from local authorities, 84 people were wounded, including 11 children. Eleven fatalities were reported, among them two children: a nine-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl.
“It’s hard when you see the lifeless bodies of children,” says Hanna Sushkina, an MSF emergency doctor. “When we arrived, their bodies had already been carried out of the burning building. There was a long line of ambulances. The windows in nearby buildings were shattered, fires were raging, and rescue workers were extinguishing the flames while carrying out the injured and the deceased.”
The MSF team treated four residents with injuries, including soft tissue wounds.
Fonte original msf.org
