About 300 people died in the Mariupol theater attack, local officials say.

An estimated 300 people were killed in the Russian bombing of Mariupol’s Drama Theater, which hundreds of people had been using as a bomb shelter, local officials said on Friday.

It was unclear how officials had arrived at that estimate. Russian advances in the southern port city have hindered efforts to find survivors in the rubble since the building was largely destroyed in a Russian attack on March 16.

The city, one of Ukraine’s largest, has also been cut off from water, electricity and communications during the fighting, although Ukrainian officials have said that about 130 people were rescued from the theater. Read more

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