- Title: UKRAINE: Five Ukrainian border guards die in Mariupol shootout
- Date: 14th June 2014
- Summary: MARIUPOL, UKRAINE (JUNE 14, 2014) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) AMBULANCE ON ROAD PARAMEDICS AND BYSTANDERS MOVING STRETCHER TO VEHICLE BORDER GUARD'S BODY INSIDE VEHICLE, FRONT SEATS OF VEHICLE VARIOUS OF PARAMEDICS LAYING DEAD BODY ON STRETCHER MAN CLOSING AMBULANCE DOORS PARAMEDICS STANDING NEXT TO VEHICLE WITH DAMAGED WINDOW BLOOD ON FLOOR INSIDE VEHICLE (SOUNDBITE) (Rus
- Embargoed: 29th June 2014 13:00
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- Location: Ukraine
- Country: Ukraine
- Topics: General
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- Story Text: Five Ukrainian border guards were killed and seven wounded in a shootout with separatists on Saturday (June 14) in the eastern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, Ukraine's border guard service said.
Paramedics and police responded to a bridge where the border guards were reportedly attacked by pro-Russian separatists.
The body of a deceased border guard was taken out of a car stained with blood and carried on a stretcher to a waiting ambulance.
"It is said that vehicles were shot. (Paramedics) have just taken a dead body out of the border service vehicle," Mariupol resident Aleksander said.
Ukrainian forces reclaimed from rebel control the city of Mariupol on Friday (June 13), a major port for export of steel. The Ukrainian flag was raised over regional government headquarters of the city of 500,000 that had long been a focus of clashes.
Mariupol, which has changed hands several times in weeks of conflict, is strategically important because it lies on major roads from the southeastern border with Russia into the rest of Ukraine and steel is exported through the port. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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