KIEV, May 3 (RIA Novosti) - Six people, including two children, were killed and three injured when an apparently drunk driver of a pickup slipped into a streetcar stop in eastern Ukraine's city of Kharkov, local emergencies services said Saturday.
"While moving along the Poltavsky Put Street, the driver of a Mitsubishi L200 pickup drove into a streetcar stop and ran over pedestrians standing at the stop. Six people died and three were injured in the accident," a spokesman said.
Ukraine's traffic police said the driver was drunk. "This [intoxication] has been confirmed by the results of tests made in a drug rehabilitation center," they said.
An investigation is underway.
