Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office confirms two deaths from gunshot wounds in Kyiv protests

11:45, 22.01.2014 1 min read

The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office has confirmed reports on two people who died from gunshot wounds in the center of Kyiv.

"An unidentified man called 102 [police] at 0626 to say that there was a man's corpse in the National Academy of Sciences library [the parliamentary library on Hrushevskoho Street in Kyiv]. The caller, who did not provide any information about himself, said the corpse was first brought to the Trade Unions House, and then it was relocated to the library," the Prosecutor General's Office said in a statement.

Policemen uncovered the corpse of a man with gunshot wounds to the head and the chest in the library hall. There were a passport and personal belongings on him.

Another man with gunshot wounds was brought unconscious to the library at about 0900 and died later, the Prosecutor General's Office said.