Swiss Red Cross worker killed by shell in Ukraine's Donetsk


DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) - A Swiss Red Cross worker was killed by a shell that landed near the international organisation's office in Ukraine's separatist-held city of Donetsk on Thursday.

Both the pro-Russian separatists and the Ukrainian government forces they have been fighting blamed each other for the attack which smashed windows, scattered shrapnel and left a crater in the pavement.

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