DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Three people were killed Wednesday morning in eastern Ukraine when a bus hit a land mine in a no man’s land between separatist rebels and government troops.
The bus driver and a female passenger were killed instantly, while another passenger died of his wounds in the hospital after the minibus drove over the mine on the side of the road west of rebel-controlled Donetsk, the Ukrainian-controlled prosecutor’s office for the Donetsk region said.
For more than a year, the Ukrainian government has been conducting de-facto border controls at checkpoints separating its positions from rebel-controlled areas. …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
