Earlier in the morning, AFP saw dozens of people -- women, children and the elderly -- throng the station desperate to escape the feared Russian advance on eastern Ukraine.
After the attack, a sneaker with the foot still inside was visible under a bench, where the people hoping to be evacuated had been waiting.
A policeman moved between the debris, picking up phones and putting them in a box, one of them ringing out incessantly.
"I'm looking for my husband. He was here. I can't reach him," sobbed a woman in a red turtle neck. Shaking, she hesitated to get closer to the bodies, holding her phone to her ear.