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Fourth person killed in overnight drone strikes in Kyiv

Cnn staff

A fourth victim of a nighttime drone attack in the region of Kyiv has been found in the rubble of a dormitory in the town of Rzhyshchiv, police said.

The deceased has been identified as a 40-year old man.

Andrii Niebytov, the Kyiv region’s police chief, said earlier that three people had been killed and seven others injured in the attack. More than 200 people were evacuated from the building and more than 20 were hospitalized. At the time when Niebytov spoke, five were missing, he said.

A total of 21 drones were launched against Ukraine from the north shortly before midnight local time on Tuesday, 16 of which were shot down, according to the Ukrainian air force.

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