Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Car Bomb Kills Prominent Journalist in Ukraine

 

A prominent journalist was killed Wednesday in a car explosion in Ukraine's capital, Kyiv.

Ukrainian media reported that Pavel Sheremet, 44, a reporter with the country's top online news website Ukrainska Pravda, died when a blast tore through the car he was in as he prepared to go to work. Images from the scene showed a charred vehicle with all four doors open.

The chief of Ukraine's national police, Khatia Dekanoidze, said the blast was being investigated as a homicide and that an explosive device equivalent to 400-600 grams of TNT had been used.

The killing of Sheremet, a pro-Western journalist born in Belarus but a Russian citizen, sent shockwaves through Ukraine and its journalistic community. Ukrainska Pravda's founder, Georgiy Gongadze, was murdered in 2000 after exposing the corruption scandals of Ukraine's then-president, Leonid Kuchma. 

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Source: Voice of America

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