The FSB for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region qualified as a diversion an emergency near Gatchina, where they blew up a power transmission line support. Four districts with a population of under half a million people depend on its work – they did not remain without electricity on May 1.
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Gatchina, Tosnensky, Lomonosovsky and Volosovsky districts spend May Day with electricity. There are no risks to limit the transmission, there is and will be light, assured MES North-West.
Brigades of power engineers are getting ready to personally assess what the night attack has turned the power pylon into. Rescue work had to be delayed. Around noon, the road near the village of Kovshovo, Susaninsky settlement, was blocked, a cordon was set up at the site from the traffic police and the National Guard.
Local residents had to get to the houses in a detour. Certificate of the representative of the company FGC UES, too did not help open the way to the explosion site.
Employees of law enforcement agencies and emergency services continue to work near the village and, it seems, are not going to disperse in the near future. The territory is surveyed by cynologists. According to the governor of the region Alexander Drozdenko, another support was cleared by the morning.
According to preliminary data 47newsthe triggered device was assembled professionally.
The strange pop and flash was reported to 112 around midnight. By words a local resident, it banged so that a frightened dog huddled under the sofa, and the neighbors, as they say, woke up and cried a child. The incident disturbed the sleep of another resident of Kovshovo, but did not seem to be something dangerous. She tells about a distant pop, like something falling in the next room, not significant enough to get out of bed.
A resident of Susanino Vitaly compares the night noise with a fallen board or an exploding firecracker. Three kilometers from the power line, in another village, they heard a muffled sound, similar to the explosion of a gas cylinder, he said. 47news.
From the blocked section of the road to the nearest houses – about five hundred meters. Locals often roam the area in search of mushrooms.
The length of the power line, the support of which was blown up on the night of May 1, is 94.6 kilometers. It is located on the line “Leningrad NPP – Gatchinskaya”. A criminal case was initiated under articles on sabotage and illegal trafficking in explosive devices.
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