KIEV: Four people were killed and 21 injured when a passenger bus hit a landmine near a government-controlled town in eastern Ukraine, local officials said Thursday.
The bus had taken a side road in order to avoid a government checkpoint near the town of Artemivsk, some 50km north of the separatist stronghold of Donetsk, late Wednesday, said Ilia Kiva, a government-loyal deputy police chief in the Donetsk region.
“Today (Wednesday), at around 1900 (1am Thursday Malaysia) … a land mine blew up a passenger bus carrying civilians,” he said.
“The explosion … killed four,” he added.
Vyacheslav Abroskin, head of the Donetsk regional interior …read more
Source: theSun
