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Updated: Suspected gas explosion at Kyiv market kills at least 1

by Martin Fornusek April 3, 2025 2:10 PM 2 min read
An explosion killed two people at a Kyiv market on April 3, 2025. (National Police/Telegram)
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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.

The police said that two people were killed, while the city administration reported one person killed and another injured and hospitalized.

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.

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