Six-year-old girl killed in Russian shelling of Mariupol

A medical team fought desperately to revive her as her mother stood outside the ambulance, weeping

Oleksandr Konovalov, an ambulance paramedic performs CPR on a girl injured during the shelling of a residential area, after arriving at the city hospital of Mariupol. Picture: AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka

A six-year-old girl has died as a result of Russian shelling in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, amid attempts to fend off the invaders.

The girl was rushed into a city hospital by ambulance on Sunday after she received mortal injuries during the shelling.