At least six people are dead and 15 others have been injured after a man opened fire on civilians in a street in Kyiv on Saturday before taking hostages in a supermarket, Ukrainian authorities said.
The shooter, who was identified by Ukraine’s Attorney General Ruslan Kravchenko as a 58-year-old man born in Moscow, is also dead.
Authorities are working to establish the circumstances of the crime, as well as the motives behind it, which they are investigating as a “terrorist act” Kravchenko said.
Kravchenko said the man opened fire on a street in Kyiv’s Holosiivskyi district, killing four people, before barricading himself inside a supermarket, where he killed another person and took hostages.
According to preliminary reports, the shooter used an automatic weapon, that was a registered firearm, Kravchenko said.
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