A shell hit the living section of the high-security correctional facility N124 as a result of artillery fire in Donetsk late on Aug. 10, the Donetsk City Council said on its official website.
As a result, one inmate has been killed, three severely injured and
another 15 sustained minor injuries. Shells also hit the main office, a
substation and the industrial zone.
“A riot broke out in the prison and 106 people left the facility. By
this morning some of them have returned to the correctional institution.
The exact figures will be clear closer to the evening,” the city
council said in a statement issued on Monday morning, Aug. 11.
Barrages of gunfire were audible across Donetsk in the early hours of
Aug. 11. The shelling damaged three private houses, a shop, seven
garages and three cars (of the latter two, six and two, respectively, on
the grounds of a garage cooperative). Power was cut off at 150
transformer substations, living residents in the Kirovsky, Petrovsky and
Leninsky districts without electricity until 10.20 p.m. of the same day when
power supplies resumed.
The morning of August 11 began in the city with artillery fire
believed to be coming from the airport and Yasynuvata, as well as the
Shyroky area. At 4.35 a.m. power was lost at 214 substations near the
Tochmash plant but by 6.20 a.m. 200 were back up and running; efforts to
reconnect the remaining 14 still continued at 9.30 a.m.
