An explosion killed two people at a Kyiv market on April 3, 2025. (National Police/Telegram)
An explosion rocked a market in the northeastern part of Kyiv on April 3, authorities said, reporting casualties.
"Circumstances of the incident are currently under investigation," the police said. The city authorities named an explosion of a gas cylinder as the likely cause.
Investigators, bomb disposal experts, and medics were immediately dispatched to the scene in the city's Desnianskyi district.
In a separate incident in Kyiv's Dnipro district, another man was injured in an explosion after lifting an unidentified object wrapped in wires, the city administration reported.
An explosion killed two people at a Kyiv market on April 3, 2025. (National Police/Telegram)
An explosion killed two people at a Kyiv market on April 3, 2025. (National Police/Telegram)
An explosion killed two people at a Kyiv market on April 3, 2025. (National Police/Telegram)
Martin Fornusek is a news editor at the Kyiv Independent. He has previously worked as a news content editor at the media company Newsmatics and is a contributor to Euromaidan Press. He was also volunteering as an editor and translator at the Czech-language version of Ukraïner. Martin studied at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia, holding a bachelor's degree in security studies and history and a master's degree in conflict and democracy studies.
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