Ukrainian lawmaker's 3-year- old son killed in attack in Kiev

Unknown gunmen opened fire at the car of a local lawmaker in the center of Ukrainian capital of Kiev on Sunday, killing his three-year old son, Ukrainian media said.

Vyacheslav Sobolev, a businessman and Kiev regional council lawmaker was at wheel of the car when it was attacked, said the source, who wished to remain anonymous.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has not identified the owner of the vehicle or the identity of the victim.

“As a result of a gunshot wound, a child died in a car ambulance on the way to hospital,” Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs said.

Sobolev is a businessman from Donetsk. He leases the vehicle he was driving from a company that he had founded, and which features in a criminal investigation related to financing terrorism in eastern Ukraine.