Ukrainian police shoot and kill a gunman who killed at least 6 and took hostages in a supermarket

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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A gunman who killed astatine slightest six radical successful Kyiv, Ukraine's capital, earlier taking hostages and barricading himself wrong a supermarket connected Saturday has been changeable and killed by police, Ukrainian officials said.

Ukraine's peculiar tactical constabulary units stormed the store aft attempts to interaction the gunman with a negotiator failed, the caput of Ukraine’s Interior Ministry, Ihor Klymenko, said successful a connection connected societal media. The attacker was killed portion resisting arrest, helium said.

Speaking to reporters astatine the scene, Klymenko said that the gunman had killed 4 bystanders portion connected the street, earlier entering the supermarket and sidesplitting a 5th person.

Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that a sixth victim, a young woman, died from her injuries successful the hospital.

An Associated Press newsman connected the country saw the bodies of the victims successful the thoroughfare covered by exigency blankets earlier they were taken away.

Klymenko said the shooter was calved successful 1968 but gave nary further details arsenic to his identity. Police negotiators spoke with the attacker for astir 40 minutes earlier storming the building, helium said.

Before the gunman was shot, a pistillate constabulary negotiator, wearing assemblage armor and lasting down an armored vehicle, utilized a loudspeaker to telephone retired to the assailant, urging him: “the radical are not to blasted for this. Please, fto them spell and we volition speech with you.”

“We tried to transportation him, knowing that determination was apt a wounded idiosyncratic inside. We adjacent offered to bring successful tourniquets to halt the bleeding, but helium did not respond," Klymenko said. “Consequently, the bid was fixed to neutralize him.”

Klymenko, who wore assemblage armor, said the antheral was carrying a carbine. The short-barrel battle firearm was legally registered, helium added.

Last December, the assailant “approached the licensing authorities to person the limb test-fired arsenic the licence was expiring. He provided a aesculapian certificate. He had besides submitted an exertion to renew his licence for the weapon. That is each we tin accidental for now," Klymenko said.

He added that the probe volition find which aesculapian instauration issued the certificate.

The shooting took spot successful Kyiv's Holosiivskyi district, the politician said. Televised footage of the country showed constabulary taking screen successful the buying promenade that housed the supermarket portion shots were fired. Bystanders were escorted distant from the scene.

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Associated Press writer Katie Marie Davies successful Manchester, England, contributed to this report.

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