War in Ukraine: Spanish aid worker killed by shell

A Spanish humanitarian volunteer was killed in Ukraine. His car was hit by a shell, Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albarez said on Sunday. “A shell fell on the car in which this Spanish citizen was driving. She worked there for an NGO working to improve the humanitarian situation in Ukraine,” the minister said on the sidelines of the G20 summit in India, saying he had received “verbal confirmation of her death.” I

Albarez did not provide further information, but Spanish media identified the volunteer as Emma Igual, 32, director of Road to Relief, a humanitarian organization registered in France and Ukraine, according to its website, that evacuates civilians far from the front lines in Ukraine. . “After a direct hit, the car overturned and caught fire,” the organization added.

Humanitarians headed towards Bakhmut

According to the non-governmental organization that hired him, Road to Relief, there were three other aid workers in the car, one of whom, a Canadian, was killed and two others, from Germany and Sweden, were seriously injured, injured and hospitalized.

In a Saturday press release on its Instagram account, the NGO was not yet aware of Emma Igual’s fate, but explained that the car she was in with three other Western aid workers was “attacked by Russia” on Saturday morning in Chasovoy Yar. , near Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine.

A group of humanitarian workers left Slavyansky and headed to Bakhmut to assess the needs of civilians “caught in the crossfire” in the town of Ivanovskoye.