Two killed, eight injured as shell hits passenger bus in Donetsk
KYIV. Nov 25 (Interfax) - Two people were killed and another eight were injured when an artillery shell hit a passenger bus in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine on Tuesday morning, the head of the city's Kyivsky district administration, Ivan Prikhodko, said on his Facebook page.
"Marshal Zhukov Avenue came under fire at 8:00 a.m. School No. 21, as well as several private houses and shops were damaged. Unfortunately, fatalities could not have been avoided. Two people were killed and another eight were injured on Bus No. 6," he said.
A militia headquarters spokesman, for his part, told Interfax that the shell exploded near a fixed-route minibus, which was carrying passengers.
"After the first explosion, the driver stopped the mini-bus and asked all passengers to get off," the spokesman said.
A regional hospital spokesman said that the clinic was currently treating one local resident. Two other people injured in the blast were admitted to the facial trauma department of another hospital, he said.