Suicide Bomb Hits Train Station In Ukraine, Perpetrator And 3 Women Died

ILLUSTRATION OF UNSPLASH/Eugene Chystiakov

JAKARTA - A man detonated a suicide bombing while border guards were checking documents at a train station in northern Ukraine.

The State Border Guard said the suicide bombing killed the perpetrator and three women.

The agency said 12 other people were injured in an explosion at a station in Ovruch, near the border with Belarus, and a border guard was among the dead.

The man who detonated the bomb was a 23-year-old Kharkiv resident in northeastern Ukraine who was recently detained for trying to cross the border. The report did not mention any association with Russia's war in Ukraine.