One dead in blast in Kherson: Moscow-installed official

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2022-10-23T21:18:44+05:00 AFP

One person was killed by a homemade bomb in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson on Sunday, according to the Russia-installed authorities in the region of the same name.

"An improvised explosive device, attached to a street pole and detonated remotely, killed a civilian from Kherson," local pro-Russian official Kirill Stremousov wrote on social media.

He said a passer-by had been wounded.

Faced with an advancing counteroffensive by Ukrainian troops, the pro-Kremlin authorities in Kherson region, which Moscow claims to have annexed, are moving residents of the city to Russian-controlled areas on the left bank of the Dnieper River.

On Saturday they told residents to "immediately" leave the city -- the only regional capital to have been captured by Russian forces -- citing a "tense situation on the front ... an increased danger of mass shelling ... and attacks".

Stremousov described Sunday's explosion as a "terrorist act" and blamed in on Ukraine.

"We strongly recommend that all residents of Kherson leave the right bank part of the region," he said.

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