KIEV: A Ukrainian National Guard officer died on Monday after being injured in the heart in fierce clashes between protesters and police that wounded around 100 people.
“He died on the operating table,” a spokeswoman for the National Guard, Svitlana Pavlovska, told AFP.
Street battles broke out between dozens of demonstrators and police outside parliament as MPs backed on first reading controversial constitutional amendments giving more autonomy to pro-Russian separatists.
It was worst unrest in Kiev since a bloody popular uprising ousted Kremlin-backed Viktor Yanukovych early last year.
Around 100 people were injured on Monday including around 90 police, with authorities detaining some 30 …read more
Source: theSun
