Kiev, 11 October 2024 (dpa/MIA) - Four more people, including a 16-year-old girl, have died in the latest Russian attacks on the southern Ukrainian region of Odessa, authorities said on Friday.

A night-time missile strike on a house in Odessa city brought the number of civilians killed in the region since Wednesday to 13, the region's governor Oleh Kiper posted on the social network Telegram.

Ten people were injured, four of them seriously. The search for people buried under the rubble was continuing, he said.

Kiper said that civilians had lived and worked in the destroyed building. Three people had been pulled dead from the rubble and one woman had died of her injuries in hospital.

Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, frequent aerial attacks on the country's towns and cities have caused numerous casualties among the civilian population. 

The Russian military has repeatedly attacked the Odessa region with missiles and drones. The port infrastructure in the Black Sea region is regularly affected, impacting exports of Ukrainian grain and other commodities overseas.

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