In Balakley, Kharkov region, a 55-year-old woman died in a local hospital and was injured as a result of explosions at the ammunition depot at the end of March.

The victim was hospitalized on March 23, and died April 25, reported in the Balakley District Administration, wrote "Ukrinform".

Earlier it was reported about one victim, also a woman.

In the city of Balakleya, Kharkov region, on the night of March 23, a large ammunition depot exploded, where artillery and tank shells were stored. As a result of the incident about 20 thousand residents of Balakleya and two nearby settlements were evacuated. On the morning of March 24, the chairman of the Federal State Dispatch Service of Ukraine Nikolai Chechetkin informed that in the destroyed structures of the apartment building in the area of ??

the explosions rescuers discovered the deceased woman born in 1951.

SBU opened a criminal case on the fact of explosions in Balakley and investigates the incident as a diversion. In addition, the military prosecutor's office instituted criminal proceedings on these facts under the article "Negligence".

Read more about the large-scale fire at ammunition depots in the Kharkov region in the article by Sergei Zhukov "The Warehouse of Problems" in the weekly "Mirror of the Week. Ukraine".