Ukrainian police said late on May 2 that more than 30 people had died in the southern Black Sea port town of Odessa after a trade union building was set ablaze amid clashes between pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian protesters. “Thirty-one individuals died as a result of the fire in Odessa’s trade union building,” Ukraine’s interior ministry said.
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Pro-Ukrainian football fans clash with pro-Russian activists who allegedly attacked them prior to a Ukrainian Premier League football match Chornomorets Odessa vs Metalist Kharkiv in Odessa on May 2, 2014. More than 30 people died in a "criminal" blaze in Ukraine's southern city of Odessa on Friday after a day of violent clashes between pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian militants, according to officials. Some local media reported that pro-Russian militants were believed to have been in the building at the time, and that petrol bombs were lobbed between the building and a group of pro-Kiev militants. AFP PHOTO/ STR
