Seven people, including a police officer, have been injured in an explosion at a checkpoint near the Seventh-Kilometer Market on the Ovidiopol road in Odesa region.

The injured were taken to hospitals, where they received medical care, the public relations department of Odesa regional branch of police reported.

The eyewitnesses reported in social networks that a fragmentation grenade was thrown at the checkpoint from a passing car at around 0400. The injuries sustained by people at the checkpoint are not life threatening. Interfax-Ukraine currently has no official confirmation of this information.

This checkpoint was organized by Odesa Euromaidan and police.