KYIV: A drone struck a high-rise residential building in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Friday, sparking a fire and damaging apartments on at least three floors, authorities said.
An AFP reporter on the scene saw what appeared to be a drone buzzing overhead before crashing into the building, erupting in a fireball.
There was no immediate information about casualties, but authorities said an emergency response was under way.
“In the Solomianskyi district, the upper floors of a high-rise building hit by an enemy drone are on fire. Emergency services are at the scene,” Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram.
“Apartments on the 17th, 18th, 19th floors are damaged. All emergency services are at the scene,” he said.
The Solomianskyi district is in the west of the city.
Ukrainian cities including Kyiv have been subjected to drone and missile attacks throughout Russia’s two-and-a-half year invasion.
Kyiv has been asking for more air defenses from its allies ahead of what is likely to be its toughest winter yet, as Russia ramps up strikes on energy infrastructure.
Drone sparks fire on high-rise residential building in Kyiv
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Drone sparks fire on high-rise residential building in Kyiv
- There was no immediate information about casualties
- “In the Solomianskyi district, the upper floors of a high-rise building hit by an enemy drone are on fire,” Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said
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.
