Missile attack on Lviv: 7 people killed and 45 more in hospital
Date: 2024-09-04 Author: Кирило Загоруйко Categories: WAR
Russian occupation forces launched another missile and drone attack on Ukraine on the morning of September 4. Among the targets was the city of Lviv.
As reported by the mayor Andriy Sadovyi, as a result of the attack, there is a fire in residential buildings near the main railway station.
Students of Arnika and school No. 17 will not go to school and will stay at home. It is also indicated that many windows were broken in the area of Konovalets, Brativ Mikhnovskykh, Melnyk streets
Later, he said that six people were already known to have been injured. Among them is a 10-year-old boy. Doctors are currently providing the necessary assistance.
Ukrzaliznytsia reported several power outages in the Lviv region. It indicates that this caused a delay in the dispatch of a number of trains:
No. 59 Kyiv-Chop;
No. 91 Kyiv-Lviv;
No. 25/135 Odessa-Yasinia, Chernivtsi;
No. 11 Odessa-Lviv;
No. 149 Poltava-Chernivtsi;
No. 746 Lviv-Kyiv;
No. 368 Uzhgorod-Kovel;
However, the delay was minimal.
As of 7.15, 17 victims are already known. Among them are two children aged 10 and 15, 15 adults were hospitalized in city hospitals. Five patients are in serious condition.
Around 8 am, it became known that two people died as a result of the attack. According to Sadovyi, the victims are a man and a 50-year-old woman who worked as a nurse-midwife at the city's 5th polyclinic.
The Lviv OVA noted that the total number of injured has risen to 23. One 15-year-old child is in moderate condition.
Later, the number of dead increased to three, and the number of wounded to 25. A 14-year-old girl was preliminarily killed.
According to the latest data, the number of injured has sharply increased to 35, and the number of dead to four.
As of 9 a.m., the number of dead has risen to seven. Sadovyi adds that a child is among the new victims.
Updated at 09:53. According to the First Medical Association of Lviv, 45 people injured in the missile strike have been hospitalized. Among them are seven children, none of them are seriously ill.
"11 patients are in critical condition. Operating rooms have been deployed, trauma medical teams are working. Right now, lives of critical patients are being saved in six operating rooms. The nature of the injuries is explosive shrapnel wounds to the torso, chest organs, limbs and face. Also, injuries to internal organs, lung and vascular injuries," said Natalia Matolinets, medical director of the First Medical Association of Lviv.
