Mariupol reports over 2,100 residents of besieged city killed since Russia invaded

An explosion in an apartment building that came under fire from a Russian army tank in Mariupol, Ukraine, on Friday, March 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
An explosion in an apartment building that came under fire from a Russian army tank in Mariupol, Ukraine, on Friday, March 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

KYIV, Ukraine — More than 2,100 residents of Ukraine’s besieged city of Mariupol have been killed since hostilities began, the local authorities say today.

“As of today, 2,187 Mariupol residents have died from attacks by Russia,” the city council posts on Telegram, raising the toll by almost 1,000 since Wednesday, when it said 1,207 civilians had died in the first nine days of the siege.

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