{"id":405505,"date":"2026-04-18T18:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T18:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/405505\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T18:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T18:18:08","slug":"five-people-dead-after-terrorist-act-shooting-in-kyiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/405505\/","title":{"rendered":"Five people dead after &#8216;terrorist act&#8217; shooting in Kyiv"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian police killed a man who opened fire in a district of Kyiv and barricaded himself into a supermarket in an incident that killed at least five people.<\/p>\n<p>\u2060Ukraine&#8217;s SBU security service \u200csaid on \u2060Telegram that the mass \u200cshooting \u2060and \u200chostage taking in a \u2060city \u200cdistrict was being investigated \u2060as a &#8220;terrorist act&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>President Volodymyr Zelensky, writing on the Telegram messaging app, quoted Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko as saying that five people had been killed in the city&#8217;s Holosiivskyi district and ten were being treated in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Vitali Klitschko, also writing on Telegram, said a woman among the ten injured had died in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The shooter in Kyiv was liquidated during the arrest,&#8221; Mr Klymenko said on Telegram.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Special forces of the &#8230; national police stormed the store where the attacker was. He took people hostage and shot at a policeman during his detention. Before that, negotiators tried to contact him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko said the shooter had been identified as a 58-year-old native of Moscow and a fire had broken out in the Kyiv apartment where the suspect was registered.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kravchenko said four people had been killed in the street and one inside the supermarket, where the suspect had brandished an automatic weapon.<\/p>\n<p>He posted a photo showing a blurred prone figure covered in blood inside a store, a weapon lying nearby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukrainian police killed a man who opened fire in a district of Kyiv and barricaded himself into a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-405505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}