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Four people have been arrested in connection with the April 27 explosions in Dnipropetrovsk, Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka has said.

"There is all the evidence that all four perpetrated this grave crime," Pshonka said at a meeting with President Viktor Yanukovych in Kyiv on Friday.

The prosecutor general confirmed that this criminal case is qualified as terrorism.

The four suspects have been detained, and the investigator is going to ask for their remand very soon, Pshonka said.

Thursday reports said that two local residents aged under 40 were arrested in connection with the explosions.

The people who organized the April blasts in Dnipropetrovsk, demanded to be paid $4.5 million, Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko said.

As reported, thirty-one people, including ten teenagers, were injured in four explosions that took place in Dnipropetrovsk on April 27. Of them, 26 were hospitalized.

The Security Service of Ukraine is investigating a criminal case opened by the Prosecutor General’s Office under Part 2 of Article 258 (terror act) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. All of the bombs were hidden in concrete waste bins.

The Ukrainian interior minister said that expert conclusions established that the blasts were caused by improvised explosive devices. The first explosive device contained the equivalent of some 160 grams of TNT, the second 190 grams, the third 230 grams, and the fourth 300 grams, he added.

One injured woman is still in hospital.