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Deputy chief of the Lebedyn District State Administration in Sumy region, Ivan Lehkyi, was shot while hunting.

The incident was initially reported to law enforcers at 10:38 by an ambulance team that had arrived on the scene in the forest area outside the village of Moskovsky Bobryk, head of the regional PD press service Elvira Bihanova reported.

"The victim was identified immediately. This was a deputy chairman of the local district administration,” the report reads.

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Read alsoPolice deny current crime rate in Ukraine as in raging 1990s“So far the police qualify the shooting as an accident while the CSI team and detectives are still working at the scene, interrogating all of those who took part in hunting," Bihanova said.

Police vow to report on the developments in determining the main version of the incident.