Ukraine cease-fire unraveling; 11 killed at schoolyard and bus stop

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http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-ukraine-russia-ceasefire-unraveling-20141001-story.html



Six people were killed by artillery shells that landed at a Donetsk bus stop near an elementary school on Wednesday in an attack that Ukrainian government and separatist leaders blamed on each other.

Ukraine cease-fire unraveling; 11 killed at schoolyard and bus stop
Carol J. Williams
10.1.2014

At least 11 adults were killed in Ukraine on Wednesday when artillery shells struck a schoolyard and bus stop in suburban Donetsk on the belated first day of school for the city at the center of a pro-Russia rebellion against rule from Kiev, Russian and Ukrainian news agencies reported.

The blasts at Donetsk School No. 57 and at the nearby bus stop detonated when all 70 schoolchildren were inside the building, RIA Novosti news agency reported.

At least one teacher was among the dead, and news agencies said another of the casualties was a gunman with the Russian-backed separatist militia that has been fighting government forces for control of eastern Ukraine since March. City authorities in Donetsk reported on their website that six people were killed at the bus stop.

A Russian Foreign Ministry official, Konstantin Dolgov, accused Ukrainian military officials of "particular cynicism" in the shelling of the school grounds on the first day local authorities were attempting to start the school year already delayed a month by the hostilities.