25 killed in Kiev in Ukraine’s riots

Moscow, Feb 19 (KMW): At least 25 people, including nine police officers, were killed in the latest upsurge of violence in the Ukraine’s capital Kiev today, in a sign that former Soviet republic may drift into a long civil war.

During the clashes between opposition and police forces 300 people were injured, 35 of them critically.

”With police engaged in an overnight battle to clear central Kiev of anti-government protesters, it is feared that the death toll could rise as eyewitnesses reported seeing bodies not apparently accounted for by the authorities,” Russian news agencies reported.