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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