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Bus carrying children comes under fire on Ukrainian-RF border

Shocked women and children from the bus "were taken to a camp for refugees"

MOSCOW, June 21 (Itar-Tass) - A bus carrying children had come under fire on the Ukrainian-Russian border, Russian presidential commissioner for children's rights Pavel Astakhov said in his Twitter blog.

"When crossing to the Rostov region, a bus with children came under fire. The driver managed to break out of the fire," Astakhov wrote.

He did not say when the incident occurred and whether anybody in the bus was hurt.

It is known that the bus has arrived in the Rostov region. The children and their mothers from the bus "were in a state of shock when they were taken to a camp for refugees".  The bus driver was questioned.