The explosion took place at the Nikopol City Court as two grenades were fired during the court session. Two persons died and ten more were wounded in the result of the incident. Hanna Starchevska, the spokeswoman of the National Police of Dnipropetrovsk region reported to 112 Ukraine.
‘According to current information, ten people were hospitalized’, she said.
According to the National Police, the court considered the case on murder. The father of the killed brought two grenades and launched them. He died in the result of the explosion and the accused, convoy, a worker of the court and one civilian got the shrapnel wounds.
Two suffered are at the surgery and the police do not report on the state of health of others.Later it was reported that one of the accused also died during the surgery.
According to Starchevska, the man fired the grenades when the court announced a break in the session until the next day due to the default in the appearance of the advocate of the accused.