Ukraine interior minister among 16 killed in Kyiv helicopter crash

Two children were among the dead and 10 of them were in hospital, officials said

A helicopter crashed near a kindergarten outside the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, causing casualties, the region’s governor said Wednesday.

Sixteen people including Ukraine’s interior minister and other senior ministry officials were killed, the national police chief said.

The governor of the Kyiv region said earlier on Wednesday that a helicopter crashed near a nursery and a residential building earlier on Wednesday.

Two children were among the dead and 10 of them were in hospital, officials said.

In a video that circulated online from the aftermath of the incident, cries could be heard at the scene which was consumed by a fire.

“In the city of Brovary, a helicopter fell near a kindergarten and a residential building,” the head of the Kyiv regional administration, Oleksiy Kuleba, said on Telegram.

“At the time of the tragedy, children and employees were in the kindergarten,” he added. “There are casualties.”