‘There could be children’: search continues amid Kremenchuk rubble

People fear for loved ones a day after shopping centre in Ukrainian city hit by two Russian missiles

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Twenty-four hours after two Russian X-22 cruise missiles hit a crowded shopping centre in Kremenchuk, small plumes of black smoke could still be seen rising from the smoking ruins. Dozens of people who feared their loved ones had been inside the building when the deadly explosions ripped through it looked on in grim silence as a giant crane removed sections of the collapsed roof, exposing blackened debris and twisted metal underneath.

Away from onlookers, rescue workers had placed a stretcher where they carefully placed fragments of charred human remains found in the rubble.