More than 60 protesters killed in Kyiv on Thursday, says Svoboda party
Over 60 people were killed in Kyiv on Thursday, Sviatoslav Khanenko, a member of the Svoboda party faction in Ukraine's parliament and the chief of the National Resistance Headquarter's medical service has said, citing preliminary information.
"According to preliminary reports, over 60 people had been killed as of 1520 today, on February 20, 2014, alone," Khanenko said. "They are using ordinary combat and armor-piercing bullets, and they are shooting to kill, aiming at the head, neck, chest, and stomach. The main places of concentration of those killed and injured are on Instytutska Street, near Freedom Palace (the former Zhovtnevy Palace), the Ukrayina hotel, and near the Kozatsky hotel on Mykhailivska Street. A female volunteer medical worker has also been gravely wounded in her neck," the Svoboda press service cited Khanenko as saying.
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