Explosions hammer Ukraine, injure 27
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April 28, 2012, Saturday
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A SERIES of blasts rocked an eastern Ukrainian city yesterday, injuring 27 people, including nine teenagers, in what authorities believed was a terrorist attack.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
The violence also undermines Ukraine's security weeks before it hosts the European football championships in June.
President Viktor Yanukovych called the explosions "yet another challenge for the whole country," and said Ukraine's best investigators will work on the case, according to the Interfax news agency.
Top law enforcement officials rushed to Dnipropetrovsk, 400 kilometers southeast of Kiev.
Ukraine has not been afflicted with political terrorism but there have been explosions connected to criminal extortion.
The first of four explosions yesterdayay in Dnipropetrovsk rocked a tram stop shortly before noon, injuring 13 people, said Emergency Situations Ministry spokeswoman Yulia Yershova. The bomb was planted in a garbage bin.
The second bomb, also planted in a garbage bin, went off about 40 minutes later near a movie theater and a trade school, injuring two adults and nine teenagers. A third blast in the city center wounded three people and a fourth, also in downtown, caused no casualties.
Television footage showed passers-by walking among broken glass trying to help a moaning victim of the tram-stop explosion, while others bandaged a bloodied arm of another victim, a middle-aged man. An elderly woman with blood on her legs lay motionless on the ground and pleaded with someone to call her daughter. Other victims were put on stretchers and transported into ambulance cars.
In a previous attack in January 2011, two explosions outside an office of a coal mining company and then a shopping center in the Ukrainian city of Makiyivka caused no casualties. Authorities then received letters demanding money in exchange for an end to the blasts.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
The violence also undermines Ukraine's security weeks before it hosts the European football championships in June.
President Viktor Yanukovych called the explosions "yet another challenge for the whole country," and said Ukraine's best investigators will work on the case, according to the Interfax news agency.
Top law enforcement officials rushed to Dnipropetrovsk, 400 kilometers southeast of Kiev.
Ukraine has not been afflicted with political terrorism but there have been explosions connected to criminal extortion.
The first of four explosions yesterdayay in Dnipropetrovsk rocked a tram stop shortly before noon, injuring 13 people, said Emergency Situations Ministry spokeswoman Yulia Yershova. The bomb was planted in a garbage bin.
The second bomb, also planted in a garbage bin, went off about 40 minutes later near a movie theater and a trade school, injuring two adults and nine teenagers. A third blast in the city center wounded three people and a fourth, also in downtown, caused no casualties.
Television footage showed passers-by walking among broken glass trying to help a moaning victim of the tram-stop explosion, while others bandaged a bloodied arm of another victim, a middle-aged man. An elderly woman with blood on her legs lay motionless on the ground and pleaded with someone to call her daughter. Other victims were put on stretchers and transported into ambulance cars.
In a previous attack in January 2011, two explosions outside an office of a coal mining company and then a shopping center in the Ukrainian city of Makiyivka caused no casualties. Authorities then received letters demanding money in exchange for an end to the blasts.
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