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Authorities say at least 15 people have been injured in four blasts in eastern city of Dnipropetrovsk
Four blasts within minutes of each other have rocked the centre of the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk, injuring at least 15 people in what prosecutors believe was a terrorist attack.
A spokeswoman for the emergency situations ministry, Yulia Yershova, said on Friday the first blast occurred at a tramway stop in the centre of Dnipropetrovsk, injuring five people. The second injured seven people outside a cinema, while the third wounded three near a railway station.
A fourth blast was also heard in the city centre, the interior ministry said. It was unclear whether anybody was injured.
President Viktor Yanukovich said the blasts were a "challenge" for the country, according to Russia's Interfax news agency.
"We … understand that this is another challenge to us, to the whole country," Yanukovich, who was visiting the southern Crimea region, said. "We will think how to respond accordingly."
The interior minister, Vitaly Zakharchenko, and other top law enforcement officials were flying to Dnipropetrovsk. A spokesman for the prosecutors, Yuri Boichenko, said investigators were treating the blasts as a terrorist attack.
In January 2011, two pre-dawn explosions took place outside an office of a coal mining company and a shopping centre in the eastern city of Makiyivka with no casualties.
The authorities said they had received letters from unknown assailants demanding money in exchange for not carrying out any further attacks. They were treating the blasts as acts of terrorism.
Ukraine is hosting the European football championships in June, but no games are planned to be held in Dnipropetrovsk.
