KIEV (Reuters) – Three people were killed and six injured on Wednesday when a passenger bus struck a landmine in eastern Ukraine where government forces have been battling Russian-backed separatists, Interfax news agency said, quoting police.
A local police official, Ilya Kyva, said the bus had been carrying about 20 passengers from Artemivsk, a government-held town north of the region’s main city of Donetsk, to Horlivka, which is held by the separatists, about 35 km (22 miles) away.
The bus struck the land mine as it apparently tried to negotiate around a road block manned by government forces, Interfax quoted Kyva as …read more
Source: Newsweek
