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Donetsk forces say another 50 people evacuated from Azovstal plant in Mariupol

FILE PHOTO: A young man evacuated from Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol stands surounded by service members of pro-Russian troops and members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) at a temporary accommodation centre in the village of Bezimenne, during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the Donetsk Region, Ukraine May 6, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

The territorial defence headquarters of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) said on Saturday that 50 more people had been evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steelworks in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, according to Russia's Interfax news agency.

Around 50 civilians had been evacuated on Friday to a reception centre in nearby Bezimenne, in the separatist DPR, whose forces are fighting alongside Russian troops to expand their control of large parts of eastern Ukraine.

Scores of civilians have been trapped for weeks alongside the remaining Ukrainian forces holding out in the bombed-out plant.

(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

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