The Kyiv police have brought a criminal case on the fact of explosion in the center of Kyiv Monday evening.

According to the Interior Ministry`s press-service, the explosion took place in Shevchenko part at around 19.10. Its capacity was up to 100 gm in TNT equivalent.

Two girls - students of the Taras Shevchenko University, who were walking in the park, were slightly injured in their hands and legs with chips from a near-by wooden bench, the press-service reports. Both the girls were taken to Kyiv hospitals.

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One of the injured students was discharged from hospital in the morning on Tuesday after she was rendered the necessary medical aid.

6 windows in three apartments of a buildings at the Tereshenskaya Street were damaged with the blast wave.

The case is under investigation of police.