Three people were killed in an explosion at a garage in Kharkiv, an eastern city of 1.4 million people located 478 kilometers east of Kyiv.
The incident occurred approximately at 5:30 a.m. on Nov. 30, in Kharkiv’s industrial area, the police report.
According to the police, the garage with a car and three people inside initially got on fire.
Then, reportedly, the gas cylinder inside the car exploded, killing the three men that were inside the garage.
The police stated that they are establishing the circumstances of the fire and explosion that destroyed the garage. The police preliminary concluded that the cause of the explosion was a “malfunction of the car’s gas equipment.”
This is the second explosion in the news in Ukraine this weekend.
In the early hours of Nov. 30, robbers blew up an ATM machine inside a branch of Ukraine’s state-owned Oschadbank in Kyiv, and got away with cash.
Andriy Pyshnyy, the chairman of the board at Oschadbank, wrote that the robbers have stolen nearly Hr 250,000 (about $10,000) but have caused millions in damage.
