Ukraine truce collapses; 71 people killed in fresh clashes

KIEV, Ukraine -- At least 20 protesters were killed Thursday morning as gunfire rang out in central Kiev, breaking the shaky truce reached between President Victor Yanukovich and opposition leaders the previous night. Oleh Musiy, chief of the protest camp health service, told The Times that dozens were injured. [Updated, 8:20 a.m. PST Feb. 20: Musiy later raised the death toll among protesters to at least 70, the Associated Press reported. ] Police reported that one officer died in a hospital of a gunshot wound.

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