ROUGH CUT (No reporter narration)<br/> <br />Cameras were rolling at a nearby meeting of rebel leaders, when an explosion erupted at a munitions factory in the rebel-held city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on Monday (October 20). The blast broke windows several kilometres (miles) away and sent meeting attendees scrambling for safety.<br/> <br />Video distributed by the rebels showed people at the meeting ducking under a table and dropping to the floor as windows were smashed in the meeting hall.<br/> <br />The blast, at around noon (0900 GMT) sent flames and a column of grey smoke into the sky in the northeast of the city, a stronghold for pro-Russian separatists fighting government forces.<br/> <br />A Ukrainian military spokesman denied the explosion was caused by a missile fired by government troops, saying Kiev's forces had nothing to do with the incident.
