(Reuters) - More than 100,000 people still need to be evacuated urgently from Mariupol, Mayor Vadym Boichenko said on Thursday, describing the situation in the Russian-besieged Ukrainian port city as a humanitarian catastrophe.
"The remaining more than 100,000 people are praying for rescue - a full-scale evacuation is needed," he said on national television.
(Reporting by Natalia Zinets; Writing by Alessandra Prentice; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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