A land rover driven by a drunk driver struck people at a tram stop in Kharkiv on Friday evening. Six people died in the accident, according to Itar-Tass.

The test results in a narcological centre confirmed that the driver was in a drunken state, the Ukrainian traffic police press service said on Saturday.

Six people, including children aged twelve and five, died in the accident. Two with severe injuries were hospitalised.

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Eight people died in two other accidents in Ukraine overnight, the Emergencies Ministry said.

A car struck pedestrians and then hit a shop in the village of Zarichya in the Zhytomyr region. Four people died and one was injured.

A Kyiv-Ivano-Frankivsk passenger train collided with a VAZ car at a controlled crossing near the village of Ozeryany in the Rivne region. Four people, the driver and passengers in the car, died in the accident.

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