OSCE staff member dies in car blast in Donbass

An OSCE monitor died in a car blast in LPR, the militia's press service told Luganskinformcenter on Sunday, TASS reports.

"Today, on April 23, 2017, as two crews of the OSCE SMM were going from Slavyanoserbsk to Sokolniki, near the Prishib settlement one of their cars exploded, and one person died, another got injured," the militia said.

OSCE twitted: "We can confirm that an OSCE patrol has been involve in a serious security incident in the Luhansk region. As information about this incident becomes available, it will be published on our social media channels."