{"id":1468073,"date":"2022-05-08T11:29:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T15:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1468073"},"modified":"2022-05-08T11:29:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T15:29:39","slug":"up-to-60-feared-dead-after-russia-bombs-ukrainian-school-converted-into-shelter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/up-to-60-feared-dead-after-russia-bombs-ukrainian-school-converted-into-shelter\/","title":{"rendered":"Up To 60 Feared Dead After Russia Bombs Ukrainian School Converted Into Shelter"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fup-to-60-feared-dead-after-russia-bombs-ukrainian-school-converted-into-shelter%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1468073&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-1240458162.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Russian forces bombed a school that had been converted into a shelter in an eastern Ukraine village Saturday, leaving up to 60 people dead or missing.<\/p>\n<p>Rescuers were frantically digging through the rubble in Berestove Sunday, hoping to find survivors following the airstrikes, according to reports. The attack could prove to be one of the deadliest in the two-and-a-half-month invasion. Survivors told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/up-to-60-feared-dead-after-russia-bombs-school-in-eastern-ukraine\/ar-AAX2NAx?ocid=uxbndlbing\">The Washington Post<\/a> dozens of people were huddled in the basement of the Bilohorivka school when it was hit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are only twelve of us left alive,\u201d a patient told the newspaper from a hospital in the nearby town of Bakhmut.<\/p>\n<p>Russia appears to be escalating its attacks ahead of May 9, known in Russia as Victory Day. Moscow\u2019s focus is now on the eastern region known as Donbas, which includes Berestove, after its forces failed to take Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>Serhiy Haidai, governor of the Luhansk region, said about 90 people were in the shelter. But witnesses put the number at around three dozen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019d been inside that basement for a month,\u201d a 57-year-old woman told the Post. \u201cWe were eating dinner when it happened. We didn\u2019t know what hit us.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ukraine war: Dozens feared dead after bomb hits school <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SzRJG7lNud\">https:\/\/t.co\/SzRJG7lNud<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCWorld\/status\/1523194101251727368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Haidai said he believes as many as 60 people are buried under the rubble are likely dead, condemning the \u201ccynical\u201d attack on his <a href=\"https:\/\/web.telegram.org\/z\/#-1649010258\">Telegram channel<\/a>. He said the rescue efforts were hampered by a fire that broke out after the initial bombing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fire was extinguished after nearly four hours, then the rubble was cleared, and, unfortunately, the bodies of two people were found,\u201d Haidai wrote on Telegram. \u201cThirty people were evacuated from the rubble, seven of whom were injured. Sixty people were likely to have died under the rubble of buildings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s Foreign Ministry decried the school bombing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MFA_Ukraine\/status\/1523203255291244545\">as a \u201cbrutal war crime.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0In Luhansk, Russian troops are combining with pro-Russian separatist fighters in a bid to surround government forces.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i86\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Haidai said a house in the neighboring village of Shypilovo, had been hit by Russian strikes, leaving nearly a dozen trapped in the basement. Rescuers were still trying to reach the scene, he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"piano-inline2\">Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, at least 2,345 Ukrainian civilians have died, and 2,919 have been injured, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said in <a class=\"ssrcss-1gfaiii-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/news\/2022\/04\/ukraine-civilian-casualty-update-21-april-2022\">an update<\/a> last month. Thousands of soldiers are also known to have been killed on both sides.<\/div>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i86\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">More than 12 million people have fled since the conflict began, with 5.7 million seeking refuge in adjacent countries and another 6.5 million displaced inside Ukraine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian forces bombed a school that had been converted into a shelter in an eastern Ukraine village Saturday, leaving up to 60 people dead or missing.Rescuers were frantically digging through<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1482031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1468073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1468073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}