VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) \u2014 Powerful explosions were heard in the suburbs of Lithuania\u2019s capital Wednesday morning after several railcars loaded with liquefied gas caught fire, authorities said. <\/p>\n
One person was injured, according to the fire and rescue department. Columns of smoke were visible across Vilnius and residents in the area were warned to stay indoors. <\/p>\n
Interior Minister Vladislavas Kondratovi\u010dius told reporters that initial information suggested that \u201cthe fire was most likely caused by a violation of occupational safety conditions, but all versions are being investigated.\u201d<\/p>\n
The carriages that caught fire belong to Polish company Orlen, police said.<\/p>\n
The tankers were carrying liquefied petroleum gas from Orlen\u2019s Lithuanian unit\u2019s refinery to the Baltoji Vok\u0117 LPG terminal in Vilnius, the company said in an email. There was a fire, followed by an explosion, it said. <\/p>\n
The terminal isn\u2019t owned by Orlen\u2019s Lithuanian unit, and the logistics operation was carried out by a contractor, so the company is cooperating with authorities to investigate the cause, it said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt this point there is no suspicion that this is the result of intentional actions,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) \u2014 Powerful explosions were heard in the suburbs of Lithuania\u2019s capital Wednesday morning after several…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[438,3872,3871,1162,171,170,1161],"class_list":{"0":"post-3731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vilnius","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-explosions","10":"tag-fires","11":"tag-general-news","12":"tag-lithuania","13":"tag-vilnius","14":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}