DONETSK. Aug 25 (Interfax) - One person was killed in an explosion which happened near the house of a DPR deputy prime minister and the Sparta battalion commander in the center of Donetsk, the capital city of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), DPR head Alexander Zakharchenko told the press.
"The bomb was planted in a garbage container, near the place of residence of a deputy prime minister; the commander of the Sparta battalion [Motorola] also lives nearby," Zakharchenko said.
An Interfax correspondent reported with reference to preliminary information that a loud clap had been heard in the Voroshylovskyi district in the central part of Donetsk.