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Mortar bomb hits Red Cross building in Ukraine's Donetsk, one killed - agency

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A mortar bomb hit a building used by the International Committee of the Red Cross in Ukraine's separatist-held city of Donetsk on Thursday, killing a Swiss citizen, Russian news agency Interfax quoted the rebels' defence ministry as saying.

A Reuters witness at the scene saw the body of a middle-aged man lying at the entrance to the Red Cross building.

(Reporting by Maria Tsvetkova, Writing by Thomas Grove; Editing by Richard Balmforth and Robin Pomeroy)

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