KIEV, October 26 (RIA Novosti) - Two cars were shot at Sunday outside a polling station in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih as Ukrainians voted for a new parliament, a local news agency cited a police source as saying.
"According to preliminary data, shots were fired from a 5.45 mm Kalashnikov rifle and a 12 mm hunting rifle," the source said.
Police are now working at the scene, which has been blocked off by a team of special security forces, Ukrinform news agency quoted him as saying.
Two bypassers were taken by ambulance to a hospital after they were injured in the shootout.
Earlier reports said police in the southern Ukrainian city Mykolaiv was alerted by an anonymous caller to bombs that had allegedly been planted at two local polling stations.
Early parliamentary elections are underway in Ukraine. Ukrainians are going to the polls to vote in 424 members of parliament — 225 of them from party lists and 199 in single-candidate constituencies. The electoral threshold is 5 percent.
