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At least 18 people, including Ukraine's interior minister and three children, were killed when a helicopter crashed near kyiv on Wednesday, the national police said.
Interior Minister
Denys
Monastyrsky, his first deputy Yevheniy Yenin, and another senior official, who were on the plane, were killed, according to the statement.
On board the ship were 9 people.
The helicopter, which belonged to the Ministry's Emergency Service,
impacted near a kindergarten
on the outskirts of Kiev, the Ukrainian presidency announced, leaving at least 18 dead.
The causes of the accident are still unknown.
Russia, for the moment, has not made any comment on the matter.
"In the city of Brovary (in eastern kyiv), a helicopter crashed near a kindergarten and a residential building," deputy head of the presidential administration Kyrylo Tymoshenko reported on Telegram, citing regional authorities.
According to various media, at the time of the accident it was night and there was fog.
The plane crashed into the nursery and immediately afterward a fire broke out.
Ambulances, police and firefighters have already moved to the scene.
There are at least 29 injured, including
15 children who have had to be hospitalized.
At the time of the drama,
there were children and employees inside the nursery school.
The accident took place in Brovary, a city of about 100,000 inhabitants on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital.
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