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Ukraine says rescue efforts underway at bombed Mariupol theater serving as shelter
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Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba posts a picture of Mariupol's Drama Theater after it was hit by what he says was Russian shelling, on March 16, 2022. (Dmytro Kuleba/Twitter)
LVIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s ombudswoman Ludmyla Denisova says a theater in the besieged city of Mariupol has withstood the impact of an airstrike, and that the rescue of civilians from under the rubble of the destroyed building has begun.
“The building withstood the impact of a high-powered air bomb and protected the lives of people hiding in the bomb shelter,” she says on the messaging service Telegram.
“Work is underway to unlock the basement” and surviving adults and children are coming out, she writes. She says there is no information on casualties so far.
Hundreds of men, women and children had taken shelter in the basement of the theater. Russia has denied attacking the theater.
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