DONETSK. Feb 18 (Interfax) - A car was blown up on Friday outside the office of the government of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the self-proclaimed DPR mission to the Joint Control and Coordination Center (JCCC) said.
"A car was blown up in a parking lot close to the government building at about 7:00 p.m. The blast was heard all across the city. An Emergency Situations Ministry team is heading to the scene," the DPR mission to the JCCC said in a statement on Friday.
No casualties have been reported.
Earlier in the day, the authorities began evacuating people living in the DPR to Russia amid dramatically growing tensions in the region.
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