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DNIPROPETROVSK – Six of those injured in the Dnipropetrovsk blasts on April 27, including one teenager, remain hospitalized as of today, May 14.

According to the media liaisons department of Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration, five of those injured, including the teenager, are hospitalized at the Ilya Mechnikov hospital, and one more person is at emergency hospital No. 6.

Doctors said that one of the patients is in critical but stable condition, while the other five people are stable.

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 of Ukraine under Part 2 of Article 258 (terror act) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. All of the bombs were hidden in concrete waste bins.

On April 3, Ukrainian Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko said that the number of lines of inquiry is falling during the course of the investigation, but the main one has not been determined yet.

On April 4, Zakharchenko told a press conference 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.