Four residents of the village of Zholobok, Luhansk Oblast, have been injured in a car bomb explosion on the Bakhmutka highway on Wednesday, according to the press office of the head of the Luhansk regional state administration, Hennadiy Moskal.
“Today nine Zholobok residents tried to leave the village, which had come under fire on a neutral territory, towards Lysychansk into Ukrainian-controlled territory. While moving on the Bakhmutka road, one car hit a roadside bomb, and three passengers sustained various injuries. Fellow village residents from the other vehicle picked them and delivered them to a Ukrainian checkpoint. From there they were taken to a Lysychansk hospital,” the statement said.
Two passengers, a 63-year-old man and a 60-year-old woman, sustained severed injuries, the spokesperson said. The man sustained blast injuries and multiple fragment wounds in his legs. He had to have one leg amputated and is now in intensive care, his condition is serious. The woman has also been diagnosed with blast injuries and multiple fragment injuries in the legs, her condition is less serious.
Two other passengers – women aged 77 and 79 – are in satisfactory condition at the traumatology unit. All the injured received necessary medications and proper medical assistance.
