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Two people, including a seven-year-old child, have been killed and five more injured after Grad rockets were fired at the town of Artemivsk, a spokesperson for Donetsk Regional Administration said on Feb. 13.

Two people have been killed, including one child, a boy who is a second grade student at a local school,” the spokesperson said.

His underage sister and four other people have been injured and taken to hospital, the spokesperson said. “Of the total number of the injured three are children aged between six and eight,” the administration said.

It was reported earlier that one person had been killed and one injured in the shelling of Artemivsk.