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17 victims, victims are recognized by DNA: SES finished work after the firing of Konstantinovka (video)

According to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Igor Klimenko, DNA laboratory staff have taken the DNA samples from the dead, now the same procedure will pass relatives. Eyewitnesses said that a blow to the urban market occurred in an hour-peak. In the city of Konstantinovka, Kramatorsk district of Donetsk region by the evening of September 6, SESS completed the search and rescue operation after a hit by a Russian C-300 rocket.

The summary of the tragedy as of 18:00 was summed up by the Ministry of Internal Affairs Igor Klimenko in the Telegram. As a result of the shelling of the market in Konstantinovka, which occurred at about 2:00 pm, 17 people were killed, another 32 were injured. Rescuers immediately eliminated a fire of 300 square meters. m, resulting in damaged about 30 trade pavilions, transmission lines, an administrative building and a 5th floor of an apartment building. Fully burned cars.

Representatives of the authorities identify those who died in the DNA laboratories of the city, said the Minister Klimenko on the air of the telecommunication. "DNA laboratories have taken appropriate DNA samples from the dead, and now-from relatives. Some bodies have broken, we now make up and try to identify all these bodies in the morgue," Klimenko said.

According to him, relatives who have lost their relationship with loved ones should contact the police units who work directly near the shelling. The minister said that almost all locals were killed and wounded. The oldest of the dead is a woman of 1940, the youngest is 2005. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted a video of a blow and said that occupation troops had used artillery. According to him, the shelling was "ordinary market with shops and a pharmacy".

According to eyewitnesses of the event, there was an hour-peak in the market in Konstantinovka. Zelensky called the blow intentional because there were no military units nearby, and expressed their condolences to people who lost their loved ones. Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmigal reported that there is also one child among the dead. However, the information was not confirmed by the Minister Klimenko, explaining that the data is still clarified.

The Russian troops may have been a blow to the day of liberation of the city from Nazi invaders, which is celebrated on September 6. This opinion was expressed by military journalist Andriy Tsaplienko. After the market shelling in Konstantinovka, the Donetsk Regional Prosecutor's Office initiated criminal proceedings.