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Monday, August 31, 2015
Ukraine National Guard officer shot to death
A 25-year-old Ukrainian National Guard officer died after being shot in the heart in clashes between protesters and police outside parliament, officials say.
“He died on the operating table,” a spokeswoman for the National Guard, Svitlana Pavlovska, tells AFP. Interior ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko says the victim was a 25-year-old conscript, adding that some of the protesters have used guns in addition to grenades.
— AFP
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