Ukrainian interior minister among 16 killed in helicopter crash

A helicopter crash has killed at least 16 people including Ukraine’s interior minister and other senior ministry officials.

A helicopter crashed near a kindergarten and a residential building in the Ukrainian city of Brovary on Wednesday, according to national police chief Ihor Klymenko.

Nine of the 16 victims were onboard the helicopter when it crashed. Some 22 people are in hospital, including 10 children, he said.

Ukrainian Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky is among the dead, he added.

“At the time of the tragedy, there were children and the staff in the kindergarten. At the moment, everyone was evacuated,” he wrote on Telegram.