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Ten people killed in Crimean college blast
MOSCOW, Oct 17, 2018 (BSS/TASS) – Ten people were reported to have been
killed in an explosion that rocked a technical college in Kerch, in the east
of Crimea, the peninsula’s emergency medicine center told TASS.
“According to preliminary data, 10 people have died,” a spokesperson said.
The explosion rocked the vocational college on Wednesday afternoon. A
source in local law enforcement agencies said that nearly 70 people were
injured in the blast.
The city ambulance service said more than 20 people have been hospitalized.
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