Kramatorsk - A bus that was blown up by a landmine in eastern Ukraine on March 25 with four passengers being killed and many others injured had violated the curfew and was illegally bypassing a Ukrainian army checkpoint along a dirt road, the Donetsk regional military-civilian governor said on Thursday.
“It was wrong for the bus to bypass the checkpoint. The bus was too late to set off and arrived at the … checkpoint when the curfew had started,” Oleksandr Kikhtenko told reporters. He said it was the passengers who had talked the driver into bypassing the checkpoint.
Besides the fatalities, about 20 people were injured, four of them severely.
The bus was en route from Artemivsk to Horlivka. It rode over the mine near the town of Mayorsk, Donetsk region, after 8 p.m.
