An angry father of a murder victim detonated two grenades in a Ukrainian court Thursday, killing himself and at least one other person.
The blast went off at a courthouse in Nikopol, a town in southern Ukraine, the BBC reported citing local news sources.
Those present during the explosion were attending a hearing for a murder trial from a February 2016 shooting that appeared to stem from a territorial struggle in connection with a known drug trafficking area.
Three of those on trial were wounded in the blast, the BBC reports. The defendants were accused of firing on a vehicle with an assault rifle and fatally striking two of the passengers.
At least nine people were wounded in the incident, including two convoy officers, a court officer, a prosecutor and civilians, police said.
All the victims were transported to local hospitals with "shard injuries."
The father of a victim blew himself up with two grenades during a hearing at Nikopol court in Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine on Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017.
(Dnipropetrovsk Region Police)The man behind the blast is believed to be the father of one of the shooting victims at the center of the trial, local reports indicated. He “died on the spot after the explosion,” local police said in the statement. Another person later died in the hospital.
Zerkalo Nedeli, a Ukrainian news website, reported the man lobbed the handheld explosives after the case was adjourned, the BBC reported.
The Council of Judges of Ukraine confirmed the explosion in a Facebook post Thursday morning.
“There are dead and injured,” it reads. “Investigations are underway.”
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