Ukrainian prisoners forced to hunt for dead comrades in airport rubble


  • World
  • Friday, 27 Feb 2015

DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - The gunmen lined up around 20 pale-looking prisoners in two silent rows in the ruins of the airport terminal. Somehow still clinging to a wall pulverised by bullets and artillery was a sign marked "Lost and Found".

The captured Ukrainian soldiers had been brought into the ruins of the airport and ordered to hunt for the dead bodies of their comrades under pieces of concrete.

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