Violence flares up in Donetsk – four killed in shelling of school

A school has been shelled in Donetsk – tis has resulted in four deaths. None of the dead are children but are a teacher and a couple of parents bbc.com. The tragic incident of shelling of the playground has been reported from the rebel-held east Ukrainian city of Donetsk and it happened on the first day of classes.
The school number 57 in the Kievsky district had over 200 people when the playground was shelled – it included 70 children. The students had only now returned to school after the start of the school year was postponed by a month because of the fighting.
Elsewhere, another six people died when a minibus was hit, also in Donetsk.
The school is located 4-Km from Donetsk airport, where rebels have clashed with Ukrainian troops.
Both the sides have blamed the other for the attacks. While the Kiev-controlled regional administration said rebels from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) had opened fire with a multiple-launch rocket system, the DPR deputy leader Andrei Purgin has clarified that Ukrainian rocket launchers had targeted residential areas from as far as 40-Km away.
Incidentally, a fragile ceasefire has been in place in eastern Ukraine since 5 September but the truce has frequently been violated.