Four killed, seventeen injured as passenger bus hits mine near Ukraine's Horlivka – police

10:10, 26.03.2015 1 min read

Four people were killed and seventeen were injured when a passenger bus hit a mine near the town of Artemivsk, Donetsk region, a press service of Donetsk military and civil administration said on Wednesday.

"Data on Artemivsk-Horlivka bus: 4 killed, 17 injured, of whom 15 were hospitalized, including four in a grave condition. No children," reads a report.

As reported, a bus carrying civilians hit a mine near Artemivsk.

The incident occurred as the bus driver tried to "bypass a checkpoint". An investigation is under way.

The Horlivka.ua website reported earlier that a Horlivka-Artemivsk passenger bus had hit a mine near the Kurdiumivsk checkpoint.

"A bus carrying civilians was blown up near a checkpoint outside of Mayorsk on the Horlivka-Artemivsk road late on March 25. Artemivsk deputy mayor Olena Holovkina confirmed this information in a phone call," it said.

According to social networking websites, it was the last Horlivka-Artemivsk bus on the Wednesday schedule. It was carrying 26 people.