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Luhansk – At least two persons were killed in an explosion at Luhansk Regional State Administration, director of the healthcare department of Luhansk Regional State Administration Pavlo Malysh told Interfax-Ukraine. 

“The number of injured is being specified now – two were killed for sure” he said on Monday.

He said that over 10 wounded persons had already been brought to the hospital and that the ambulances were still coming.

The police don’t know the reasons for the explosion so far.

Residents are being evacuated from Luhansk city center, and shops are closing.

Previously several Ukrainian media, referring to eyewitnesses of the aforementioned accident, reported that illegal armed formations attempted to shoot down an unmanned aerial vehicle of the Ukrainian air force, but instead hit the window of the building.

A spokesman for the self-proclaimed ‘Luhansk People’s Republic’ said that the Ukrainian air force dropped a cluster bomb into the building of Luhansk Regional State Administration. According to him, five civilians were killed and several militants seriously injured.

The explosion at Luhansk Regional State Administration building occurred inside the building, there was no bombing from the outside or from aircraft, Radio Svoboda reported, referring to a spokesman of the special army operation Oleksiy Dmytrashkovsky.

“The most probable reason for the explosion was careless and unskilled use of small arms and explosives,” he said on Monday.