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Second blast hits car in Ukraine’s Kharkiv on Friday

Commander of the Slobozhanshchyna volunteer battalion Alexander Yangolenko and his wife Inna were injured in the blast

KIEV, 6 March. /TASS/. A second blast rocked the Ukrainian north-eastern city of Kharkiv on Friday, targeting another car.

The Audi A6 sedan caught fire and then blew off near a residential hall on Gvardeitsev Shironintsev Street," the city’s website said on Friday.

"At 14.06 local time a call was registered and at 14.22 the firefighters managed to put down the blaze," said Igor Lupandin, an aide to the emergencies minister. "No-one has been hurt."

Earlier in the day, the Commander of the Slobozhanshchyna volunteer battalion Alexander Yangolenko and his wife Inna were injured in the blast in Kharkiv.

An aide to Ukraine’s Security Service head, Markian Lubkovsky, said that the service officers and police teams were working on the scene of the explosion.

A blast rocked the eastern part of Kharkiv on Friday noon. The city administration said that the car had been hit on the move and then caught fire. Recently a series of blasts hit the city but mostly, no victims were reported.