More than 10,000 civilians died in Mariupol - mayor

The mayor of the besieged city of Mariupol has told the Associated Press news agency that at least 10,000 civilians have died

The mayor of the besieged city of Mariupol has told the Associated Press news agency that at least 10,000 civilians have died in the Mariupol.

Qazet.az reports that Mayor Vadym Boychenko said on Monday that the corpses were “carpeted through the streets”. He was speaking from an undisclosed location in Ukraine, but outside the city.

He added that there were still 120,000 civilians in Mariupol. They urgently need of food, water and medicine, he added.

Boychenko also said he had received reports of Russians collecting bodies and storing them in fridges at a huge shopping centre.

“Mobile crematoriums have arrived in the form of trucks: you open it, and there is a pipe inside and these bodies are burned,” he said.