KYIV: Russian drones bore down on the city of Kyiv early on Friday, with Mayor Vitali Klitschko and other officials reporting strikes on widely separated residential districts.
It was the sixth drone attack on the capital this month. At least two people were injured.
Klitschko said a drone had hit a block of flats in the Solomyanskyi district, south of the city center, triggering a fire. Two people were injured, including one being treated in hospital.
“The upper floors are in flames. Emergency crews are on site,” Mayor Klitschko said.
A video posted on social media showed a giant orange flame going skyward in the night.
Klitschko also said drone fragments had set fire to a house under construction in Darnytskyi district on the eastern bank of the Dnipro River that runs through the city.
He said there were no injuries. Pictures posted online showed construction materials strewn about the site.
Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv’s military administration, reported fragments from a downed drone had struck an apartment building in a third area — Holosiivskyi district — also south of the city center.
Popko posted pictures showing smashed windows and heavy damage to apartments.
Mass drone attack hits several districts in Ukrainian capital
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Mass drone attack hits several districts in Ukrainian capital
- A drone had hit a block of flats in the Solomyanskyi district, triggering a fire: Mayor Vitali Klitschko
Indonesia nursing home fire kills 16: official
JAKARTA: A fire at a nursing home on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi killed more than a dozen people, with three others injured, a local official said Monday.
Firefighters received the report of the blaze at 8:31 p.m. Sunday at a nursing home in the North Sulawesi provincial capital Manado, said the city’s fire and rescue agency chief Jimmy Rotinsulu.
“There were 16 deaths; three (people) had burn injuries,” he told AFP.
Many bodies of the victims were found inside their rooms, Jimmy said, adding that many of the elderly residents were likely resting in their rooms in the evening when the fire broke out.
Authorities managed to evacuate 12 people — all unhurt — and transfer them to a local hospital, he said.
Footage aired by local broadcaster Metro TV showed the fire engulfing the nursing home, while locals helped to evacuate an elderly person.
Deadly fires are not uncommon in Indonesia, a Southeast Asian archipelago of more than 17,000 islands.
A fire tore through a seven-story office building in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta this month, killing at least 22 people.
In 2023, at least 12 people were killed in the country’s east after an explosion at a nickel-processing plant.
