Firefighter putting out explosion killed by further shelling

Firefighter putting out explosion killed by further shelling

Ukraine's emergency services have just put out an update saying that a firefighter attending to an explosion has been killed by further shelling.

Qazet.az reports that the unnamed worker had been helping extinguish a fire at a shopping centre in Kharkiv on Thursday, after it was hit in a Russian strike.

"During firefighting, the enemy fired again. Two rescuers received shrapnel wounds," the service wrote on Its social media.

One later died of his injuries in hospital.