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Rescuers in Ukraine are continuing their search for survivors in the wreckage of a big shopping centre hit by a Russian drone strike on Friday.<\/b><\/p>\n
Sixteen people were killed and 130 injured when two drones hit the busy centre in Kryvyi Rih in quick succession in what is known as a double-tap strike. Four people are still missing. The search and rescue operation could last for another two days.<\/p>\n
President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the “cynical and despicable” attack in which the second drone targeted emergency workers.<\/p>\n
The sides exchanged more fire overnight, with Ukrainian attacks said to have killed at least four people in Russia, including two children, and two people reported dead by Kyiv as a result of Russian strikes.<\/p>\n
The death toll from Friday’s attack reached 16 after another body was retrieved from the rubble overnight, said Dnipropetrovsk regional head Oleksandr Hanzha. <\/p>\n
“We’re doing everything possible to speed up… the search and rescue operation,” he told Ukrainian TV on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n
He added that the work could continue for another two days because of the sheer scale of devastation and constant threats of more Russian attacks.<\/p>\n
Rescue teams from seven other Ukrainian regions were urgently deployed on Friday evening to help search for survivors.<\/p>\n
The huge fire covering an area of some \u200b\u200b9,000 sq m has been extinguished.<\/p>\n
In an update later on Saturday, Hanzha said that 52 injured people, including 14 children, were still in city hospitals. <\/p>\n
Dozens of people had already undergone surgery, said Kryvyi Rih’s miltiary chief Oleksandr Vilkul.<\/p>\n
A day of mourning is being observed across the Dnipropetrovsk region.<\/p>\n
Dramatic footage verified by the BBC showed the second drone hitting the already burning shopping centre in Zelensky’s hometown. Russia’s military has not commented.<\/p>\n
Vilkul said the drones had been flying at “extremely low altitudes” and described the attackers as “animals”.<\/p>\n
The attack on the shopping centre came a day after 17 people were killed and more than 40 injured<\/a> in a major Russian missile and drone attack on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n