Donetsk region school suffers direct hit, two dead

A Russian missile attack on Friday on a village school near the frontline in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region killed two women, including a teacher, and
injured six, Ukrainian police said.
The 56-year-old primary school teacher and a chief accountant, 44, died in the strike on the village of Serhiivka, Ukrainian police said. Twelve employees were the building’s only occupants, the prosecutor’s office said. Ukrainian schools were not in session for students on Friday.
“Russian troops, in a direct hit, destroyed a school where civilians were located,” Ukraine’s national police said in a statement.
The Donetsk region prosecutor’s office said four men aged 54 to 69 and two women aged 24 and 34 were injured and taken to hospital, and that it had launched an investigation into the attack.
Reuters was unable immediately to verify details of the attack.