A 23-year-old police officer has been killed and 25 people injured in what Ukrainian officials have called a terror attack in the western city of Lviv.
Two homemade explosive devices detonated after police crews responded to a reported break-in shortly after midnight on Sunday, the National Police of Ukraine said. The devices were planted in waste bins, it added.
Eleven people were admitted to hospital, six of whom were law enforcement officers in a serious condition, police said.
President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed “an individual suspected of carrying out the terrorist attack” had been detained. Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said she was a Ukrainian woman.
The victim of the attack was named as Viktoria Shpylka.
“She was only 23 years old and had begun her service at the start of the full-scale invasion of the Kherson region,” the national police wrote on Telegram on Sunday morning.
Police said the first blast occurred after a police car arrived at the scene of the reported break-in at a shop in the city centre.
“Later, when a second crew arrived, another explosion went off,” it added.
Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said police and the Security Service of Ukraine had detained the suspect, who was described by police as a 33-year-old resident of the north-western Rivne region.
“We are identifying other persons involved in committing this crime,” he wrote on Telegram.
Meanwhile, the regional prosecutor’s office said it had started an investigation into the “act of terrorism that led to grave consequences”.
Credit: bbc.com
