Kyiv, Ukraine. Eight people, including one child, remain hospitalised after being wounded in a shooting in Kyiv that killed six people, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Sunday. The suspect, described as a Russian-born man, was shot dead by police after barricading himself in a supermarket with hostages.
Hospitalised victims and official statements
Klitschko said the wounded child, whose parents were killed in the shooting, was in moderate condition, while one of the adults was in critical condition. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that the shooting injured 14 people.
“They are all receiving all necessary medical care,” Klitschko said on Telegram.
Police operation at supermarket
The suspect opened fire from an automatic rifle on passersby on Saturday before barricading himself in a supermarket with hostages. Police stormed the supermarket after unsuccessfully trying to negotiate with the suspect for 40 minutes.
Scene in Holosiivskyi district
The shooting happened in the capital’s leafy Holosiivskyi district. The supermarket has been cordoned off and remains closed, with bullet holes visible in its windows and blood stains still on the pavement and asphalt. Flowers were left near a residential building a couple of hundred metres from the supermarket, where the shooter shot his first victims.
Witness accounts
“I saw how people grabbed children from the playground and ran away. They screamed: ‘run away, hide.’ People didn’t understand what was going on. They said that there was a man there, a man was shooting with a machine gun,” Daryna, a 31-year-old local resident, told Reuters.
A 73-year-old local resident told Reuters that the man he saw shooting bystanders on Saturday “looked kind of smart.”
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