Sappers Working In Independence Square In Minsk

A phone call informing about mining has been received.

The engineer combat group is working in the Independence Square after the mining report. As readers of tut.by inform, people are asked to leave the adjacent territories and the Stalitsa shopping center.

An underground passage in the direction of the pedagogical university in the Independence Square iss closed, readers report. The vehicle of the engineer combat group has been spotted nearby. “The shopping center “Stalitsa” is closed, sappers and the police are working. No one is allowed into the shopping center, and those who managed to enter are not allowed into the square, and it will be closed until 12:00,” reader Anastasia also wrote to the editor.

In the Internal Troops they confirmed: they have received a signal that the object was mined.

“The sapper-pyrotechnic group of the internal troops’ bombing center have left for the square. Experts are already in place and get to work. The message is being checked,” confirmed the official representative of the Interior Ministry troops Uladzimir Parkhoutsau.

In the Minsk police they have clarified that at 9.42 a call from an unknown person was received by the officers on duty “with a message about the mining of the Lenin Square”. In addition to the sappers, the law enforcement officers are working on the site, people are being evacuated.

In addition, they reinforced security at the entrance to the station “Lenin Square”. “They are checking all suitcases and large bags, although usually they are not so strict,” said Khrystsina, a Minsker.