Russian attack on Ukraine's Odesa kills married couple, officials say

April 24 (Reuters) - ‌A Russian ​drone ​attack overnight on Ukraine's southern city of Odesa killed ‌an elderly married couple and wounded ⁠more than a dozen others, Ukrainian ‌officials said on Friday.

The ‌strike wrecked two two-storey buildings and hit another two-storey one where ​two people died, emergency services said. It also wrecked apartments ⁠in a three-storey building, triggering fire, they said.

"A ​married couple, both aged 75, were killed in a night-time ​attack," Serhiy Lysak, the ‌head of the local military administration, said on ⁠Telegram.

Lysak said that 15 people were injured in the attack, while emergency ⁠services put the number of injured at ​14.

He added that eight of those injured in the attack were treated in hospital.

Lysak ‌posted photos of a building engulfed by fire, and ‌another one with a gaping ⁠hole on its ‌side, and ​emergency crews working inside.

(Reporting by Anna Pruchnicka; Editing by Raju ‌Gopalakrishnan)

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