Victim's Father Detonates Grenades At Ukraine Murder Trial, Killing Self And Defendant
By RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service
Police say a man detonated two grenades during a murder trial in the Ukrainian town of Nikopol on November 30, killing himself and a defendant and injuring nine other people as shrapnel sprayed through the courtroom.
The father of the murder victim took out two grenades in court and set them off, Hanna Starchevska, a National Police spokeswoman in the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, told RFE/RL.
The man was killed and 10 people -- including the three defendants, guards, and court employees -- were injured and rushed to the hospital, Starchevska said.
One of the injured defendants died in the hospital a few hours later.
The defendants are being tried for the killings of two men with an AK-47 assault rifle in February 2016.
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Deadly Grenade Blasts Rock Ukrainian Court
The father of a murder victim detonated two hand grenades in a Ukrainian courtroom, killing himself and a defendant. Ten people were also injured and loaded into ambulances after the November 30 explosions in the eastern Ukrainian town of Nikopol. The defendants were accused of killing the man's son with an automatic weapon in 2016. (Prykhyst via Reuters)
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