Four killed and 20 injured after bus hits landmine in Ukraine

‘At least four people have been killed and 20 more injured after a bus struck a landmine near a government-controlled town in eastern Ukraine, officials say.

The driver of the passenger bus veered away from a government checkpoint and instead took a side road near the town of Artemivsk, some 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of the violence-wracked city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, on Wednesday, said Ilia Kiva, a government-loyal deputy police chief in the Donetsk region.

“Today (Wednesday), at around 1900 (1700GMT)… a landmine blew up a passenger bus carrying civilians…. The explosion… killed four,” the official added.’

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