Blast hits US embassy grounds in Ukrainian capital, no casualties – police

Published time: 8 Jun, 2017 05:46
Edited time: 8 Jun, 2017 11:37

An unknown assailant threw an explosive device into the US diplomatic mission's premises in Kiev on Thursday night, police reported, adding that no one was hurt.

The explosion took place at 12:05am local time on Thursday, according to a Kiev police statement. Police immediately dispatched a rapid response unit to the embassy premises.

An investigation was initially launched into a suspected terrorist attack, but was later downgraded.

“The item that was thrown into the embassy compound could not have hurt anyone. This is why the final decision is to investigate this incident as aggravated hooliganism,” Sergey Knyazev, head of the Ukrainian national police, said in a statement.

The announcement came after the embassy itself said on its Facebook page that it didn’t consider the incident an act of terrorism. The US mission described the explosive item as a “small incendiary device.”

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