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Thursday, March 17, 2022
30,000 civilians flee besieged Mariupol; no confirmation on theater bombing toll
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A man looks at a burned apartment building that was damaged by shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, on Sunday, March 13, 2022. (AP/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Authorities in Ukraine’s Mariupol say around 30,000 people have fled the besieged city and that they were clarifying information on possible victims of the Russian shelling of a theatre sheltering civilians a day earlier.
Mariupol’s city hall said on Telegram that “around 30,000 people have left on their transport,” adding that “80 percent of residential housing was destroyed.”
It said it was “clarifying information on victims” of the theater shelling.
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