Crimean prosecutor's office opens criminal proceedings on counts of terrorist attack over Kerch explosion - Oct. 17, 2018

Crimean prosecutor’s office opens criminal proceedings on counts of terrorist attack over Kerch explosion

Published Oct. 17, 2018 at 4:15 pm

Special forces servicemen patrol a blast site at a college in the city of Kerch on Oct. 17, 2018. At least 18 people died in a blast in a technical college on the Crimean peninsula, with dozens more injured, Crimean head Sergei Aksyonov said on state television on Oct. 17.

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The Prosecutor’s Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea has opened criminal proceedings on the counts of a terrorist attack over the explosion at a vocational school in Kerch.

“The Crimean Prosecutor’s Office has registered criminal proceedings on the counts of a terrorist attack under Article 258, Part 3 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine,” the head of a unit of the prosecutor’s office, Roman Murachov, said at a briefing in Kyiv on Wednesday.

He said that in this situation, the prosecutor’s office collects information from the media, including on the theories of the accident, the number of those killed and injured, as well as other data.

“We are checking all theories without exception (…) Instructions will be given to the SBU to check these theories,” Murachov said.