DONETSK. Feb 11 (Interfax) - Six people were killed as a shell hit a minibus in Donetsk on Wednesday morning, Viktor Kuchkovyi, the health minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk people's republic (DPR), told journalists.
"Five civilians were killed [on the spot], and nine others were taken to a trauma center. Four were hospitalized, and one of them died right away, as his condition could not be stabilized," Kuchkovyi said.
"All the six people killed when the minibus came under fire at the Center bus station are young people aged 35-40. There were no children among them," he said.
The militia headquarters had reported earlier in the day that a stationary bus and a metallurgy plant had come under fire in Donetsk on Wednesday morning. The militia consider the shelling of the Center bus station in Donetsk as an act of sabotage.