A man died as a result of the night shelling of Gorlovka – JCCC

Donetsk, June 28, the Donetsk News Agency

One civilian died as a result of shelling of Gorlovka last night, the representative of the Joint center of Ceasefire Coordination and Control told the DNA.

“Late in the evening of June 27 Ukrainian Armed Forces opened fire upon Gorlovka that resulted in the death of a civilian in the area of mine No 6/7″, — the JCCC representative said.

He also added that the fire was carried out from mortar-guns. The shelling of Gorlovka lasted two hours.

Gorlovka Town Administration confirmed the civilian casualty as a result of Ukrainian shelling.

“The body was delivered to the morgue about an hour ago”, — a worker of the health care department of the local administration told the DNA. According to the official, the victim is a man born in 1955, a dweller of locality Mine 6/7 of Nikitovskiy district.

Deputy head of the Gorlovka administration in the issues of interior policy Maksim Yushchenko told the DNA that the tragic accident was the result of the direct mine hit upon a residential house – the master of the house was killed. “The shelling presumably was carried out from the direction of Dzerzhynsk (a town nearby Gorlovka under Kiev control)», — he added.

Earlier the agency reported that in the evening of June 27 Ukrainian military started the next shelling of Gorlovka

Workers of the health care department specified that the shelling lasted from 18:30 of June  27 till 07:00 of June 28.

“Right now blasts are being heard from the direction of Nikitovskiy district; the shelling subsides and then resumes again and again”, — the DNA interlocutor said.