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A car carrying two residents of the city of Kurakhove and a girl from Donetsk came under fire on the motorway connecting Donetsk and Zaporizhia on July 20 morning, the press service for the Ukrainian Interior Ministry's Main Department in Donetsk region has reported.

All passengers were wounded in the attack, which occurred near a Ukrainian Armed Forces checkpoint, the source said. The press service said the shots were fired from the direction of the checkpoint of the Donetsk People’s Republic, which the car had passed.

The regional police department said the victims were admitted to hospital with fragmentation wounds.