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An explosion has shaken the Stina rock club in downtown Kharkiv, the media liaisons division of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry's department in Kharkiv region reports.

It said the police were informed about the explosion at 9:47 p.m. on Nov. 9.

There were no fatalities in the incident, an informed source said.

Yet the State Emergency Service of Ukraine reported injuries of eleven persons in the explosion at the Kharkiv rock pub.

First deputy chief of the Kharkiv region police Yuriy Annenkov told reporters earlier that two persons hurt in the explosion at the Stina rock pub were in a grave condition.