Fire causes massive blasts in Ukraine: 5 killed

Medical officials in the region of Melitopol, the southeastern town near where the blasts occurred late on Thursday, said three of the dead were elderly people who died of heart failure due to the sudden explosions.

The depot was still blazing early on Friday, and sporadic explosions could be heard.

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Ukrainian officials said the fire, at a depot where large quantities of munitions inherited from the former Soviet Union were stocked, would not be easy to extinguish.