Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT

Severe Weather In Odesa: Family Of Five Among The Dead


(MENAFN- UkrinForm) This was reported by the Main Directorate of the State Emergency Service (SES) in the Odesa region, according to Ukrinform.

“Rescuers were pumping water from the basement of a private home when they found the bodies of five individuals: two men, two women, and a child,” the SES press service stated.

Oleh Kiper, Head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration, clarified that the bodies of two men, two women, and a girl approximately eight years old were found on Sergei Eisenstein Lane. Their identities are being established.

Read also: Severe weather claims nine lives in Odesa

Two more bodies were found on Balkivska Street: an unidentified woman aged 55–65 and a local resident born in 1987. On Dacha Kovalevskoho Street, the body of a woman born in 1968 was discovered, and on Rybalska Street, the body of a missing 23-year-old woman was recovered.

According to Kiper, there have also been cases of hypothermia due to prolonged exposure to water. Medical assistance is being provided to those affected.

As previously reported by Ukrinform, nine people, including one child, died in Odesa and the surrounding district as a result of the severe weather.

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