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27 injured in 4 blasts in eastern Ukraine city

The Columbian
Published: April 26, 2012, 5:00pm

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Officials say four blasts within minutes have rocked the center of the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk, injuring at least 27 people, including nine schoolchildren, in what prosecutors believed was a terrorist attack.

Emergency Situations Ministry spokeswoman Yulia Yershova says the first blast occurred at a tramway stop in the center of Dnipropetrovsk, injuring 13 people. The second injured 11 people near a school, among them nine children, while the third wounded three near a railway station.

A fourth blast was also heard in the city center, Yershova said. It was unclear whether anybody was injured.

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