Ukraine’s interior minister, Sixteen people, including two children have been killed by a helicopter crashed near a kindergarten outside the capital Kyiv.
“In total, 16 people are currently known to have died,” the head of national police, Igor Klymenko, said.
Among the dead are several top officials of the interior ministry including Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky, he added.
Officials said that at the time of the crash children and employees were in the kindergarten. Twenty-two people were hospitalized including 10 children.
