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Rescuers work at a shattered five-storey block in the Black Sea resort of Yevpatoria in the Crimea peninsula December 25, 2008. An explosion ripped through the apartment building in southern Ukraine overnight, killing nine people, including a child, and at least 40 were missing, officials said on Thursday. The Emergencies Ministry said 20 residents had been pulled out alive from the shattered five-storey block in the Black Sea resort of Yevpatoria in the Crimea peninsula. Up to 40 flats might have been destroyed or damaged, a ministry spokesman said. REUTERS/Stringer (UKRAINE)