Pakistan, June 3 -- At least seven people were killed and 11 others injured after a drone strike hit a passenger bus in Russian-controlled eastern Ukraine, according to local authorities in the occupied Donetsk region.

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The attack occurred near Yenakiyevo on Wednesday when a bus travelling between Moscow and Simferopol in Crimea was struck by an unmanned aerial vehicle. Officials in the Russian-administered region said the victims were civilians and that emergency services responded quickly to the scene.

Denis Pushilin, the Moscow-backed head of the occupied part of Donetsk, said preliminary information indicated that seven people lost their lives in the strike. He added that 11...