At least 1 citizen died and four were injured as a result of a fire at a munitions depot in the Lugansk region, exploding ammunition continued, said on the last working day of the week press service of the Kiev-controlled regional administration.

on Thursday evening in Kiev-controlled town of Svatovo of the Luhansk region started to explode ammunition warehouse of the military unit. The area of the fire amounted to about 9 thousand square meters. The SBU opened a case under the criminal code.

"There are victims. In the end, the explosion killed a woman, born in 1966, resident of the city of Svatovo, a saleswoman of the shop " Lux ". Received shrapnel damage to the health of the four soldiers. They quickly provided emergency medical aid ", - reported in the report of the press service of the administration on Facebook.

It is also noted that, as of 6. 00 local time, in the warehouse continue to detonate ammunition, but the explosions became less frequent. Deputy Chairman of military-civil administration of Luhansk oblast Yuri Klimenko have said before, that fire at the warehouse was more than 3, 5 thousand tons of ammunition.

first Advisor to the head of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine Zoryan Shkiriak said that in the end PE lost his life 2 people, three more were injured. The Ukrainian General staff reported 2 received damage soldiers, one crazy and one missing.

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