April 18 (Reuters) - Ukrainian policekilled a man who opened fire in a city district and barricaded himself into a supermarket on Saturday, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said.
Klymenko said the casualty toll in the incident in the city's Holosiivskyi district was being clarified. Mayor Vitali Klitschko, who earlier said the suspect had killed two people, said there were also people killed inside the store.
"The shooter in Kyiv was liquidated during the arrest," Klymenko said on the Telegram messaging app.
"Special forces of the...national police stormed the store where the attacker was. He took people hostage and shot at a policeman during his detention. Before that, negotiators tried to contact him."
Klitschko said 10 people were being treated in hospital. Five others sustained injuries.
(Reporting by Ron Popeski, Editing by Louise Heavens and Chizu Nomiyama )
