Huge blasts echo in Ukraine's Lugansk region as ammunition warehouses catch alight .
Strong blasts have rocked the town of Svatovo in Lugansk region, southeastern Ukraine, after an ammunition storage facility caught fire Thursday evening, causing mass panic in the area. At least one person was reportedly killed.
Around 300 square meters of warehouses are reportedly on fire, a local official said, adding that over 3.5 tons of ammunition were being stored on site.
“Shell fragments are bursting near the scene [of explosion] right in the town, a shop building has been hit. Unfortunately, there is information that one of the shop employees has been killed,” deputy head of the Lugansk regional administration, Yury Klimenko, told Ukraine’s 112 UA channel. There is no information on any further casualties, the official added.
The area is located in Kiev-controlled territories.
The exploding shells made it more difficult to deal with the blaze, Klimenko said, adding that an emergency operations center had been established.
INC News, 29/10/2015 - via RT
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