KYIV, November 3 — The death toll from a Russian attack in southern Ukraine on a site where people had gathered to receive humanitarian aid rose to 29 on Tuesday, with 48 still missing, the Associated Press reported, as a wave of overnight strikes targeted power plants across the country, damaged hospitals and wounded scores of people.

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Dozens of rescuers and volunteers continued to search the cratered blast site of the destroyed aid facility and shelter in Komyshuvakha, a village in Ukraine's southern Zaporizhzhia region, hoping to find missing residents alive under the rubble; instead, more bodies were pulled out and carried away in white plastic sheeting, AP reported.

"The scale of the tragedy is terrifying," Mykhailo Semikin, acting head of the region's military administration, wrote in an online post, quoted by AP. "This is one of the worst tragedies in terms of the number of civilian victims in our region since the start of the full-scale war." Three days of mourning were declared in Zaporizhzhia, AP reported — an extension of the single day of mourning, Tuesday, that officials had announced on Monday night.

Semikin said at least nine 3,000-kilogram aerial bombs hit the village, according to reports carried by the BBC and The Guardian, while AP described Russian bunker-busting bombs filled with nearly 1.5 tons of explosives being used in Monday's attack. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said the first bombs struck the school just as residents were arriving for the weekly aid distribution, and that a second wave then hit the shelter where people had taken cover — the sequence Ukrainian officials call a double-tap strike.

The dead included four police officers and two rescue workers, Semikin said on Tuesday. Ukraine's State Emergency Service named the two rescuers as Denys Konovalenko and Oleksii Sushchevskyi, both 44, according to reports citing the service. At least five people were hurt, AP reported; some Ukrainian updates put the injured at 10. The Russian military has not publicly commented on the Komyshuvakha strike in the reports available on Tuesday.

The same night's wider barrage

The updated toll landed as Ukraine counted the cost of a separate massive overnight wave: Russia launched 289 attack drones, 17 ballistic missiles and 59 cruise missiles across nine regions, triggering emergency power cuts, Zelenskyy said in an online post that noted the barrage coincided with the US midterm elections being held on Tuesday. "The Russians think America won't notice this signal of theirs," Zelenskyy said, according to AP. "But we need to notice and stop such terror. We need to help Ukraine defend its skies; otherwise, Russia will never stop its missile strikes."

Awaaz Punjab reported the overnight barrage's Kharkiv hospital strike, which wounded at least 62 people, here: Russia's massive overnight barrage hits Kharkiv hospital

In the Dnipro area, rescuers pulled a woman alive from the rubble on Tuesday morning after a Russian attack killed one person and wounded 17, local authorities told AP, and an outpatient clinic and a hospital were damaged. Russia's Ministry of Defense said on Tuesday that it had shot down 856 Ukrainian drones overnight, and Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 493 drones were fired toward the Russian capital — Russian claims that AP reported as Moscow's account. A Ukrainian drone attack wounded two employees at an oil refinery in the Russian city of Yaroslavl, regional governor Mikhail Yevrayev said.

The Yaroslavl refinery attack and Russia's 856-drone claim are covered in full here: Ukraine drones set fire to Russia's Yaroslavl oil refinery

Rolling blackouts have been imposed in the south, west and east of Russian-occupied Crimea following attacks on energy infrastructure, Moscow-installed officials said on Tuesday, according to AP.