Outspoken Journalist Killed in Car Bombing in Kiev
A bomb ripped through a car and killed journalist Pavel Sheremet in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev on Wednesday morning, the most high-profile slaying of a journalist in the country in more than 15 years.
President Petro Poroshenko ordered a prompt investigation into the killing of Mr. Sheremet, a 44-year-old Belarusian who worked for the investigative-news site Ukrainska Pravda, or Ukrainian Truth.
An explosion rocked the car in which Mr. Sheremet was traveling around 7:45 a.m. in central Kiev. Photos from the scene showed a burned red sport-utility vehicle with its windows blown out and debris spread across the street. Ukrainska Pravda said the car belonged to its co-founder and Mr. Sheremet’s partner, Olena Prytula, although she wasn’t in the car at the time.
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