A rocket-propelled grenade fired by the Ukrainian army has hit a truck carrying wounded self-defense fighters near the Donetsk airport, killing a driver, People's Republic of Donetsk (DNR) source told RIA Novosti.
"Only the driver was killed in the shelling. A few wounded were taken to the hospitals of Donetsk. But we don't know if they received fresh wounds in the attack," the representative of the DNR said.
There are conflicting reports on the number of casualties from the latest attack. Earlier people's governor of Donestk Region, Pavel Gubarev, said in a post on Facebook that 35 people were killed and 15 were wounded in the strike. The truck carrying the wounded was marked as an ambulance, he added.
According to Itar-Tass citing a correspondent of St. Petersburg's Fifth Channel, at least 24 people were killed.
It is hard to verify these reports but local medical authorities do confirm that many people with gunshot wounds are being taken to the city's hospital, RT's Maria Finoshina says.
The fighting in Donetsk is continuing around the airport and the railway station, Interfax cited the self-defense force as saying.
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