KYIV, Ukraine — A gunman who killed at the least six individuals in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, earlier than taking hostages and barricading himself inside a grocery store on Saturday has been shot and killed by police, Ukrainian officers stated.
Ukraine’s particular tactical police items stormed the shop after makes an attempt to contact the gunman with a negotiator failed, the top of Ukraine’s Inside Ministry, Ihor Klymenko, stated in a press release on social media. The attacker was killed whereas resisting arrest, he stated.
Talking to reporters on the scene, Klymenko stated that the gunman had killed 4 bystanders whereas on the road, earlier than getting into the grocery store and killing a fifth individual.
Mayor Vitali Klitschko stated {that a} sixth sufferer, a younger girl, died from her accidents within the hospital.
An Related Press reporter on the scene noticed the our bodies of the victims on the street coated by emergency blankets earlier than they had been taken away.
Klymenko stated the shooter was born in 1968 however gave no additional particulars as to his identification. Police negotiators spoke with the attacker for roughly 40 minutes earlier than storming the constructing, he stated.
Earlier than the gunman was shot, a feminine police negotiator, carrying physique armor and standing behind an armored automobile, used a loudspeaker to name out to the assailant, urging him: “the individuals are to not blame for this. Please, allow them to go and we are going to speak with you.”
“We tried to influence him, realizing that there was doubtless a wounded individual inside. We even provided to herald tourniquets to cease the bleeding, however he didn’t reply,” Klymenko stated. “Consequently, the order was given to neutralize him.”
Klymenko, who wore physique armor, stated the person was carrying a carbine. The short-barrel assault rifle was legally registered, he added.
Final December, the assailant “approached the licensing authorities to have the weapon test-fired because the allow was expiring. He supplied a medical certificates. He had additionally submitted an utility to resume his allow for the weapon. That’s all we will say for now,” Klymenko stated.
He added that the investigation will decide which medical establishment issued the certificates.
The capturing occurred in Kyiv’s Holosiivskyi district, the mayor stated. Televised footage of the scene confirmed police taking cowl within the shopping center that housed the grocery store whereas photographs had been fired. Bystanders had been escorted away from the scene.
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Related Press author Katie Marie Davies in Manchester, England, contributed to this report.
