KIEV: A person believed to be strapped with explosives has taken 9 adults and two kids hostage in a post workplace within the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, police stated on Saturday.
The unidentified guy is calm, has not made any demands and is in common touch with police via the telephones of the hostages, regional police chief Oleg Bekh advised 112 information channel.
Television pictures showed police and parked police automobiles out of doors a two tale white-and-yellow development within the northeastern city. The house has been closed off to visitors.
"We are trying to do everything to maintain communication with him and to do everything that is necessary to ensure the people are released," Bekh stated.
The guy within the post workplace was involved concerning the recent prisoner exchange between the Ukrainian authorities and pro-Russian separatists and concept more prisoners will have to had been launched, Bekh stated, adding police did not know what he wanted.
Ukraine and the separatists swapped masses of prisoners on Wednesday within the greatest such exchange because the outbreak of a struggle within the eastern Donbass region that has killed more than 10,000 other folks.
The unidentified guy is calm, has not made any demands and is in common touch with police via the telephones of the hostages, regional police chief Oleg Bekh advised 112 information channel.
Television pictures showed police and parked police automobiles out of doors a two tale white-and-yellow development within the northeastern city. The house has been closed off to visitors.
"We are trying to do everything to maintain communication with him and to do everything that is necessary to ensure the people are released," Bekh stated.
The guy within the post workplace was involved concerning the recent prisoner exchange between the Ukrainian authorities and pro-Russian separatists and concept more prisoners will have to had been launched, Bekh stated, adding police did not know what he wanted.
Ukraine and the separatists swapped masses of prisoners on Wednesday within the greatest such exchange because the outbreak of a struggle within the eastern Donbass region that has killed more than 10,000 other folks.
Man with explosives takes 11 hostages in Ukraine
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