A helicopter crashed on Wednesday morning near a kindergarten on the outskirts of Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, and Ukrainian police reported 16 dead, including Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky and two children.
The deputy interior minister and the secretary of state who were aboard the helicopter were also killed, according to the police report.
“In the city of Brovary (east of Kyiv), a helicopter crashed near a kindergarten and a residential building (…) There are victims,” Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Kyrylo Tymoshenko said on Telegram. , citing the Regions.
For his part, the governor of the region, Oleksiy Kuleba, specified: “Information on the victims and the circumstances” of this incident are “being prepared”.
Ambulance, police and firefighters were already at work on the scene. “At the time of the drama, there were children and kindergarten workers,” said Kuleba.
“Right now, everyone is evacuated,” he added, without providing further details on possible child casualties.
A Ukrainian police spokeswoman for the Kiev region, quoted by Suspilné public television, said for her part that “a fire broke out” at the time of the tragedy.
As the minutes passed, Ihor Klymenko, head of the national police, explained that nine of the deceased were traveling aboard the emergency services helicopter. In total, 22 people were injured, including 10 children.
The incident occurred in Brovary, a town of about 100,000 on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital.
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