Kyiv shooting: death toll rises to six, 15 injured, including a baby

The number of people killed in the attack in Kyiv has risen to six. Nine injured people have been hospitalised, while another six received medical assistance at the scene, including a four-month-old baby.

Source: Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klitschko on Telegram

Quote: "According to medics, five people were killed as a result of the shooting in the street and inside the supermarket in Kyiv's Holosiivskyi district.

A woman who was among the 10 hospitalised victims has just died in hospital. Her identity is being established; she was around 30 years old. This brings the total number of people killed in the shooting to six."

Details: Medics also provided assistance at the scene to six other victims.

Among them was a four-month-old baby who suffered carbon monoxide poisoning in an apartment next to the one that the attacker set on fire before opening fire in the street and supermarket. The parents refused hospitalisation.

Background:

• On 18 April, a man opened fire in Kyiv's Holosiivskyi district, killing and injuring people. Police conducted a special operation to detain the attacker.
• The man who carried out the fatal shooting was later killed during the operation to arrest him.
• According to Ukrainska Pravda sources, his name was Dmytro Vasylchenkov and he was born on 21 April 1968 in Moscow. He held Ukrainian citizenship and had previously lived in Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, before moving to Kyiv's Holosiivskyi district.
• Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko confirmed that the shooter was a 58-year-old Moscow-born man.
• Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said the shooter used a registered weapon during the attack.

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