Three killed, including girl, and 17 injured in 'barbaric' Mariupol maternity hospital blast

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Three people - including a young girl - have been killed in the bombing of a hospital in Mariupol, the city's council has announced.

The council said that the children's and maternity hospital in Ukraine was destroyed by the Russian blast yesterday (March 9).

Speaking to the BBC this morning, Mariupol's deputy mayor said 17 people had also been injured in the attack, including pregnant women and doctors working at the site. READ MORE: Russia-Ukraine LIVE updates amid anger at horrific Mariupol hospital bombing Sergei Orlov told the Today programme: "The last information that we have about victims is that most of the visitors were in a bomb shelter. “That’s why we have information about 17 injured people - and that’s mostly pregnant women and doctors who work in this hospital. “We don’t have information about children, but the information is being collected at the moment.” The world has reacted with anger to the blast on a hospital for women and children which was roundly condemned on the front pages of national papers this morning.

Images from the scene show women being taken away from the hospital while severely injured. Russia has stoked more anger after claiming this morning the blast on the hospital was 'fake news' - insisting the building was in fact a former maternity hospital that had long been taken over by troops.