Donetsk, Jan 17 — DAN. Donetsk People’s Republic rescuers have retrieved the bodies of two women from under the debris of an retail and office center in Donetsk’s Kalininsky district, the DPR Emergencies Ministry press service said on Tuesday.

“Emergency Ministry personnel retrieved the body of a woman from under the debris at 23:50. At 2:28, they retrieved the body of another woman. The victims were aged 46 and 48, ” the press service said. 

On Monday evening rescuers found the body of a 64-year-old man in the collapsed building. The death toll from the Ukrainian artillery attack on Donetsk has reached three.  Four people have been wounded.

The Kalininsky district was attacked in the morning of January 16. Ukrainian projectiles hit the retail and office center in a busy Ilyich Avenue destroying the building and damaging neighboring apartment houses, a vehicle maintenance center, cars and road infrastructure.*jk