Gunman takes hostages after killing two in northeast Ukraine


KIEV (Reuters) - A gunman was holding two people hostage at a petrol station in northeast Ukraine on Monday after killing two others, the interior ministry said.

The 48-year-old man opened fire with a rifle, killing the two people in the town of Lyubotin in the Kharkiv region and then drove to the petrol station where he took hostages.

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