U.N. council urges probe of bus attack in eastern Ukraine


  • World
  • Friday, 23 Jan 2015

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council on Thursday called for an investigation of a deadly attack on a trolley bus in Ukraine's rebel-controlled eastern city of Donetsk.

"The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the killing of as many as 15 and injuring of more than 20 civilians, among them women and children, as a result of shelling of a public transport stop," the 15-member council said in a statement.

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