1 killed, 3 policemen wounded in shooting incident in Ukraine's Odessa
Xinhua,January 20, 2018 Adjust font size:
KIEV, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- One man was killed and three police officers were wounded on Friday during a shooting in Ukraine's southern city of Odessa, police said.
Ukraine's national police chief Sergiy Knyazev wrote on Facebook that the incident occurred at 3.30 p.m. local time (GMT 1330), when the police officers tried to arrest the armed man and he opened fire. The man died at the scene after officers returned fire.
According to Ruslan Forostyak, an advisor to Odessa regional police chief, one of the injured police officers is in severe condition.
The killed man was wanted by police for the alleged hooliganism with the use of firearms. Enditem