Five people were injured in a drone attack on a passenger bus in Shebekino in Russia’s Belgorod region, according to the regional emergency operations center.
Authorities initially reported that four women had been injured. A man later sought medical attention and was diagnosed with acoustic trauma, bringing the total number of injured to five.
One of the women suffered a severe leg injury. The other victims sustained shrapnel wounds and acoustic trauma of varying severity.
Russian authorities said the bus was attacked by a Ukrainian drone. There was no independent confirmation of the drone’s origin at the time of publication.
Shebekino is located in Russia’s border region of Belgorod, which is regularly subjected to attacks in the course of the Russia-Ukraine war.