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More than 10,000 civilians might have died in the russian siege of Mariupol

More than 10,000 civilians might have died in the russian siege of Mariupol / AFP

12 April 2022, 20:39

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The mayor Vadym Boychenko claimed that bodies of dead Mariupol people “carpeted” the city streets. The russian invaders might have killed more than 10,000 civilians there.

He has also expressed fears that the death toll could be even higher.

The mayor of Mariupol also said that russian forces have brought mobile cremation equipment to the city. He accused the invaders of having blocked humanitarian convoys into the city in an attempt to conceal what they have done there.

Russians have taken many bodies to a huge shopping mall with storage facilities and refrigerators. “Mobile crematoria have arrived in the form of trucks: you open it, and there is a pipe inside and these bodies are burned,” Boychenko explained.

More than 120,000 civilians are staying in Mariupol currently and they desperately need food, water, heating and mobile connection.

The city has been under siege since March 1. More than 90% of buildings have been destroyed. The day earlier, the invaders used chemical weapons there.