Women and children beg for help in video from besieged Mariupol steel factory

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A video has emerged from inside the besieged Azovstal steel factory in Mariupol showing women and children who say they are running out of strength" and need to be urgently evacuated to Ukrainian-controlled territory.

The film was recorded on Thursday. The women say 15 children are living in tunnels beneath the plant, ranging in ages from babies to teenagers. They are trapped together with their families and other civilians, including factory workers.