A man has detonated an explosive device at a railway station in northern Ukraine , killing himself and three women, the State Border Guard Service has said.

Twelve others were hurt on Friday at the station in Ovruch, close to the border with Belarus.

Among the dead were a border guard and two civilians, aged 29, 58 and 82, the service said in a statement.

The man who detonated the explosive device was a 23-year-old resident of Kharkiv, in northeastern Ukraine, who had recently been detained for trying to cross the border. He died while being treated in an ambulance after the blast.

The statement made no mention of any link with Russia’s war in Ukraine .

The internet portal Ukrainska Pravda quoted Ministry of Internal Affairs spokesperson Marjana Rewa as saying that the man detonat

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