Event 716aaa87-35e4-44ab-aede-df91df92a72f

Approved event from Hybrid War Tracker

Status: Approved Confidence: Low Category: Sabotage Country: Lithuania Country: Russia Attack Type: Bomb Threat

Source: https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2178616/police-rece ...

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Event Time

1y ago

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Created

1mo ago

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Updated

1mo ago

Summary

Headline: Police receive false bomb threat on Lithuanian-Russian border bridge

Description

Lithuanian police received a false bomb threat relating to the Queen Louise bridge between Panemunė in Lithuania and Sovetsk in Russia, on the border with Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave. The report was received late at night and, following inspection by Lithuanian and Russian officers, no explosives were found.

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Police received a false report of a bomb on a bridge on the border between Lithuania and Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave late Tuesday night.

Officers from Lithuania’s anti-terrorist operations unit ARAS and Russian officers inspected the bridge and its approaches and found no explosives, the Police Department said.

The Tauragė District Chief Police Commissariat received the hoax report at 23:44 and it said there was a bomb on the bridge over the Nemunas River between the towns of Panemunė and Sovetsk.

Source

https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2178616/police-receive-false-bomb-threat-on-lithuanian-russian-border-bridge