Ukraine bank explosion hurts 25 people

KIEV, Ukraine, June 2 (UPI) -- Twenty-five people were injured, six of them seriously, when an explosion Tuesday rocked a bank office in Melitopol in southern Ukraine, authorities said.

Among the injured were two children, ages 18 months and 7 years, an official of the southern Ukrainian Zaporizhia region said.

There was no immediate word about what caused the explosion in the office of the state-owned Oshchadbank on the ground floor of an apartment building in Melitopol.

Police and state security officers were on the scene investigating the explosion, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported.