UPDATE - Ukrainian drone strike kills 7, injures 40 in Russia’s Belgorod: Local authorities

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By Burc Eruygur

ISTANBUL (AA) - At least seven people were killed and 40 others injured in a Ukrainian drone attack in Russia’s border region of Belgorod, local authorities said on Monday.

"At the moment, there is information about seven dead employees of the Grayvoronsky and Borisov pig farms," the press service of GK Agro-Belogorye group of companies told Russian state news agency TASS.

According to Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, two buses and a passenger car transporting people to work were attacked by drones near the village of Berezovka in the region’s Borisovsky district.

He said the injured included two children with "superficial injuries," while a man with a penetrating abdominal wound was undergoing surgery.

The remaining, he added, who received shrapnel wounds of varying severity, were transported to regional medical institutions by ambulance.

Deputy Health Minister Alexey Kuznetsov told reporters that the number of injured had risen to 40, 30 of whom were hospitalized while 10 received outpatient medical care.

The Investigative Committee launched an investigation into the incident.