KIEV: A second Ukrainian policeman died Tuesday from injuries suffered in street battles with protesters in Kiev, and more than 140 people were being treated in hospital, officials said.
The clashes flared outside parliament on Monday as demonstrators protested at legislation approved on first reading by lawmakers giving more autonomy to pro-Kremlin rebels in eastern Ukraine.
A member of Ukraine’s National Guard died on Monday and Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said on Tuesday that another had succumbed to his injuries,
“It’s painful,” he said on Twitter.
Authorities blamed ultra-nationalists for the unrest — the worst in Kiev since the popular bloody uprising that …read more
Source: theSun
