Ukrainian drones kill two in Moscow region, injure nine more, governor says


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MOSCOW, Oct ‌6 (Reuters) - Ukrainian drone attacks overnight on Tuesday killed two people and injured nine more in the Moscow ​region surrounding the Russian ⁠capital, Governor Andrei Vorobyov ⁠said.

More than 650 Ukrainian drones were launched ⁠in ‌a wave headed towards Moscow overnight, the city's mayor Sergei Sobyanin ⁠said earlier on Tuesday, adding that ​most of ‌them were downed.

The dead included a 71-year-old ⁠man ​pulled from under the rubble of a house and a 20-year-old man found in ⁠a nearby village, Vorobyov said. ​A warehouse was also set ablaze, local authorities were cited as saying by the TASS ⁠state news agency.

The head of the city of Domodedovo, south of Moscow and home to the country's third-largest airport of ​the same name, said ⁠work was being done to restore electricity to ​villages that had been ‌hit by drones.

(Reporting by ​Reuters; Writing by Lucy Papachristou; Editing by Christian Schmollinger and Gleb Bryanski)

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