In the night of Wednesday on the road Kyiv - Kharkiv near Poltava burned military truck carrying ammunition, explosions were heard in several neighborhoods of the city.
in the trailer there was ammunition, including mines, reports local portal " Kolo ".
According to witnesses, the car caught fire on the move. Military noticed the fire and tried to put it out, but after a few minutes I called the fire Department. The supplies that were in the trailer, started to explode. The citizens began to hear explosions in the 1st. 00, for example they could be heard in neighborhoods " Diamond ", "Gardens" and " Yar." Woke up with my husband 1 hour to the sound of explosions. Thought maybe it's some kind of diversion. From the window it was obvious that close over the route was up a column of black smoke. Nonstop for fifteen minutes nonstop explosions have been heard. Called in service of rescue, they announced that emergency and their employees have already left the place. Even at four in the morning you could hear a single explosion, - told the portal Lily Gnatenko, the inhabitant of microdistrict " Yar ". According to media reports, the debris from the shells, which were transported From Kiev to the zone ATO, after the explosion scattered a few hundred meters from the explosion. Place of the event, work engineers. The course is difficult, the area where the incident occurred, is closed. The state service for emergency situations (SSES) of Ukraine explained that "in the Poltava region to 336 km of the highway Kyiv - Kharkiv while driving in the car KrAZ, which belongs to the national guard of Ukraine, there was a fire, the explosion of ammunition," the news Agency. About three o'clock the fire and the explosions ended. On site works investigative team and forensic experts. Set the circumstances and cause of the incident. In the end, the extraordinary events of the death and destruction there. On the given fact criminal case under criminal code article 264 of the criminal code of Ukraine (careless handling of ammunition). VIDEO

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