VIDEO: Ukraine’s minister 15 others die in helicopter crash

Sixteen people have been killed, including Ukraine’s interior affairs minister, after a helicopter crashed beside a kindergarten in an eastern suburb of the capital Kyiv.

Two children were among the dead and 10 more are being treated in hospital.

The minister, Denys Monastyrsky, was with eight others in the helicopter.

Officials said his first deputy minister and the state secretary also died when the helicopter came down in the suburb of Brovary.

National police chief Ihor Klymenko wrote on Facebook that the helicopter belonged to Ukraine’s state emergency service.