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"Self-defense forces" in Sloviansk have reported the death of over ten civilians who had obstructed a road to a Right Sector motorcade.

“Last night people in the village of Andriyivka (a suburb of Sloviansk) went out to obstruct the road to a Right Sector motorcade. They formed a human chain, but Right Sector fighters opened fire, killing more than ten people as a result,” Sloviansk “people’s mayor” Viacheslav Ponomariov told Interfax by phone on Saturday.

About 40 people have been injured in the incident, he said.

Other sources were not immediately available to confirm this information.