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Eastern Ukraine conflict: A new, bloody chapter

Avdiivka residents: 'We can't understand why people are dying'

By Tom Burridge
BBC News, Ukraine

By mid-afternoon the snow was still red. Faene, a 61-year-old mother of five, had died in the morning.

The bloodied blanket that had covered her lifeless body, discarded in the bushes.

Earlier, Faene's 24-year-old daughter had crouched by the corpse, frozen by raw shock.

Nearby, the snow was blackened from the blast.

She had so nearly reached the house where her young daughter lives with her husband.

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