Death of U.S. embassy employee in Ukraine may be crime or accident: Ukrainian official


KYIV (Reuters) - The death of a U.S. embassy employee in Kyiv may have been a crime or an accident, Interior Ministry spokesman Artem Shevchenko said on Twitter on Wednesday.

Police have opened an investigation after a woman was found with a head injury in a park next to railway tracks. She died of her injuries in hospital.

(Reporting by Pavel Polityuk; writing by Matthias Williams; editing by John Stonestreet)

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