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What did 4 December 2019 mean for Odesa?
Summary
A retrospective on a deadly fire in Odesa and a gas pipeline opening reported in the same days.
What was known on 4 December 2019, and what did it say about a city in mourning? Reports from that day said a fire in Odesa had killed 12 people, injured 32 and left 8 missing.
Those figures were the core of the day's reporting from the Black Sea port. The count of missing people meant the toll was not final as reported on 4 December, and the injured and missing outnumbered the dead by a wide margin.
Two days earlier, on 2 December 2019, Russia and China had inaugurated their joint Power of Siberia gas pipeline. That event was reported separately and concerned another part of the region.
Looking back, the Odesa figures stand as a plain record of loss: 12 dead, 32 hurt and 8 unaccounted for as of 4 December 2019.
