A car carrying employees of the Rylsk district administration was struck by a mine in the center of Rylsk, in Russia’s Kursk region, Kursk Governor Alexander Khinshtein said. According to him, the device was detonated remotely.
Rylsk district head Vladimir Kovalchuk sustained a blast injury and shrapnel wounds to his legs. Sergey Besedin, director of the district’s facilities management department, was behind the wheel and suffered an abdominal wound and shrapnel damage to his thigh.
Two other administration employees standing on the steps of a nearby building were also injured by the blast wave, Khinshtein said. The governor did not say who detonated the device.
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