Local officials, citing witness accounts, said on Friday they estimate that 300 people were killed in the bombing of a theatre on March 16.
The city council had not previously provided a toll and made clear it was not possible to determine an exact figure after the incident, in which it said a Russian air strike hit the Drama Theatre where hundreds of people had been sheltering.
“From witnesses comes information that about 300 people died in the Mariupol Drama Theatre as a result of the bombing by a Russian plane,” the Mariupol city council said in a statement. Instead, the authorities had used data on the average number of people who sheltered in the theatre each day, how many of those had left to be evacuated and how many had moved to the theatre from other shelters, Andrushenko said.
“The bombing killed about 300 people on the upper floors and in the back of the theatre,” he said, adding that about 600 people were rescued. “It feels like that damn bomb exploded right in my heart, leaving nothing.”
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