Tag: Children
14 children and teacher shot dead at Texas elementary school – BBC News
14 children and a teacher have been killed in a shooting at a primary school in Texas. The attack happened at Robb Elementary School in the city of Uvalde. The state’s Governor Greg Abbott said the gunman was 18-year-old Salvador Ramos. The gunman, who was armed with a handgun and may have also had a rifle, was shot dead by police officers. Huw Edwards presents…
Texas school shooting: 19 children and two adults killed
“It is time to turn this pain into action”. That is the message from US President Joe Biden after 19 young children and two adults were killed in a school shooting in Texas. The assault by a lone teenage gunman is the deadliest at an American school in a decade. The 18-year-old gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary School in the city of Uvalde before…
How are children from Ukraine settling in the UK? – BBC News
It’s thought that more than 11 million people, including at least two million children, have had to flee their homes in Ukraine since Russia invaded the country in February. 15-year-old Polina, her five-year-old sister, Taisiia, and their mum Svetlana, made the journey from Ukraine to the UK in search of a new life. The BBC has been following the family’s journey and caught up with…
Disabled children "abandoned" in Ukrainian institutions – BBC News
There is evidence that thousands of disabled Ukrainian children have been forgotten and abandoned in institutions that can’t look after them. The human rights organisation, Disability Rights International, has carried out an investigation and found children with severe disabilities tied to beds in overrun children’s homes unable to cope. The BBC has been given exclusive access to an institution in western Ukraine, where disabled children…
The rescue mission to evacuate sick Ukrainian children from Russian bombs – BBC News
Ukrainian medics drove an ambulance 48 hours to evacuate children from the eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy. Most of the patients were newborns with life threatening conditions many of whom were orphans with disabilities. A brief local ceasefire had made the journey possible. Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog #Russia #Ukraine #BBCNews
Ukraine war creates largest refugee crisis since WW2 – BBC News
Four weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine and the lives of millions have been turned upside down. “Children were killed and teenage girls were raped, we had to leave, they were shooting at the cars as we tried to escape,” Ukrainian mother Yulia Kirienko said. Almost a quarter of Ukraine’s population has fled their homes, with around 60% going to Poland. Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog #BBCNews…