At least two shells landed near a hospital in the separatist-controlled eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Wednesday, killing at least three people nearby, a Reuters eyewitness said. Pictures from the scene showed a huge crater in the ground in front of Hospital no. 27 in Donetsk's Kirovsky district, a south-western suburb, after shells struck the area.
A statement on the website of the rebel-controlled city administration said an artillery shell had hit the building at 12 noon (0900 GMT), and that there were dead and wounded. The Russian news agency RIA quoted rebel sources as saying four people had been killed. A Reuters cameraman who visited the scene said the hospital itself had not been hit, though its front windows had been shattered by debris after one shell slammed into the ground about 10 metres in front of it.