KIEV – Unknown gunmen opened fire at the car of a local lawmaker in the center of this Ukrainian capital on Sunday, killing his three-year-old son, a police source said.
Vyacheslav Sobolev, a businessman and Kiev regional council lawmaker was at wheel of the car when it was attacked, the source added.
“As a result of a gunshot wound, a child died in a car ambulance on the way to hospital,” Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs said.
Sobolev is a businessman from Donetsk, a flashpoint of pro-Russian insurgency in Ukraine. In 2010-2011 he was an executive at Ukraine’s state energy company Naftogaz.(Reuters)
