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Car bomb kills Ukrainian serviceman in Kiev

Reuters, Jun 27, 2017 – A Ukrainian serviceman was killed and another person was wounded in a car bomb explosion in the center of Kiev on Tuesday, the interior ministry said, describing the incident as a “terrorist act.”


Police said an explosive device in the vehicle blew up at 0516 GMT while the car was moving, killing the driver.


“Since he was an acting serviceman, the prosecutor’s office will determine the investigative procedure of this criminal act, which is currently registered as a ‘terrorist act,'” interior ministry spokesman Artem Shevchenko told journalists.


He did not give further details.


Online newspaper Ukrainska Pravda said the serviceman, Maxim Shapoval, was a high-ranking official involved in military intelligence.


The defense ministry was not immediately available for comment
Since fighting with pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine broke out in 2014, the number of incidents involving explosives outside the conflict zone has increased, but car bombs are relatively rare.


The last major incident in Kiev occurred last July, when a prominent investigative journalist, Pavel Sheremet, was killed when an explosive device detonated in his car.

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