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Ukrainian security official killed in car blast

Xinhua, March 31, 2017 Adjust font size:

A senior official of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) was killed on Friday in a car explosion in the country's eastern Donetsk region, the authorities said.

Colonel Olexandr Kharaberyush was killed at about 8:30 a.m. local time (0530 GMT) when his car blew up in Mariupol city of the Donetsk region, the SBU said in a statement without giving further details.

The Donetsk region lies near the front line of the fighting between government troops and pro-independence insurgents.

According to Prosecutor General Yury Lutsenko, Kharaberyush was one of the leaders of the government-led military operation against the rebels.

Kharaberyush has served as the deputy head of the SBU's main counter-intelligence department in the Donetsk region, reports said.

Donetsk police said that members of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic forces could be behind the attack. Endi