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Authorities identify body found in Bat Yam rubble as mother of slain Ukrainian girl
30-year-old Maria Peshkurova (Courtesy)
A body discovered this afternoon in the rubble of a building hit by an Iranian missile in Bat Yam early Sunday morning has reportedly been identified as that of Maria Peshkurova.
Peshkurova, 30, was a Ukrainian national and the mother of 7-year-old Nastia Borik, who came to Israel for cancer treatment and was killed along with her grandmother and two cousins.
Maria had been missing since the missile strike and was presumed dead along with her four other family members.
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