MOSCOW, July 5 Two people were taken out of the building on a stretcher Shevchenkovsky District Court of Kiev after the second explosion, the Ukrainian edition of «Strana» reported.
Earlier on Wednesday, Strana, citing a source, reported that Igor Gumenyuk, accused of a terrorist attack near the building of the Verkhovna Rada in August 2015, blew up three grenades in the premises of the Shevchenkovsky District Court of Kiev and took two escorts hostage. The National Police of Ukraine reported that special forces, cynologists and explosives technicians are working at the site of the explosion. The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Igor Klymenko, said that, according to preliminary data, an unidentified explosive device was blown up. Later, the publication reported that another explosion rocked the courthouse.
«Two people on a stretcher were carried out of the building of the Shevchenkovsky District Court,» writes Strana.
Three law enforcement officers were killed and more than 150 people were injured as a result of the riots near the Rada building that took place on August 31, 2015 after the deputies had preliminary approved changes to the country's Constitution regarding decentralization. Arsen Avakov, who headed the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine at that time, called the nationalist Svoboda party responsible for the riots as one of the organizers of the rallies. Law enforcers charged Igor Gumenyuk, a fighter of the Sich battalion, and Serhiy Krainyak, a fighter of the Karpatska Sich battalion, with organizing riots, they were also charged with the article «terrorist act».