Foo Fighters have cancelled all their upcoming tour dates following the recent death of band member Taylor Hawkins. In a public statement issued on Tuesday (March 29) the group apologised for the disappointment.
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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.
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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.
Mr Orlov added that he was 'absolutely sure' Russia knew about the hospital before the blast, adding that it was not the first hospital to be targeted in Mariupol since the war broke out.
He said: "This is the third hospital that they have destroyed in the city. The previous day they destroyed hospital number nine by artillery shelling. This was a Covid hospital with 300 beds.
“They have also
Foo Fighters have cancelled all their upcoming tour dates following the recent death of band member Taylor Hawkins. In a public statement issued on Tuesday (March 29) the group apologised for the disappointment.
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Marianna Podgurskaya is one of the women who was photographed during the aftermath of Russia bombing a maternity ward in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol on Wednesday, March 10. In one picture, the young, heavily-pregnant woman wore maternity pajamas as she was being pulled from the rubble. Another pic showed the mom-to-be wrapped up in a blanket as her face was covered with dried blood. Here’s everything there is to know about the expecting mother who endured this tragedy.