World News | 5 Killed in Ukraine in Shooting by Serviceman of National Guard: Interior Ministry

Kyiv [Ukraine], January 27 (ANI/Sputnik): Five people were killed and five others wounded in a shooting by a serviceman of the Ukrainian National Guard who opened fire with a Kalashnikov rifle on the territory of a factory in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday.

"At 03:40 [01:40 GMT] a tragedy occurred on the territory of the Yuzhmash Southern Machine-Building Plant. A serviceman of the National Guard of Ukraine, Conscript Ryabchuk Artemy Yuryevich, born in 2001, upon being given a weapon, shot at National Guard watch on duty from a Kalashnikov rifle for unknown reasons, after which he fled with the weapon. As a result, five people were killed and five more were injured," the ministry said.

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According to the ministry, four soldiers and one civilian were killed on the spot including a servicewoman who died of gunshot wounds while under medical care.

A police operation was launched in the city, with personnel of the national police and national guard units put on high alert.

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Investigators are still trying to determine the motives for the crime. (ANI/Sputnik)

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