Phone hooligan detained in Vitebsk a few hours after a bomb threat call

November 14, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. A phone hooligan was detained by law enforcement agencies a few hours after his call to the police about a supposed bomb threat at the Vitebsk cold storage plant, the head of the information and public relations department of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, Andrei Semenikhin, told a BELTA correspondent. At 6:53 AM today, a man who refused to give his name called the duty officer of the Internal Affairs Directorate and reported that an explosive device had been planted on the territory of the Vitebsk cold storage plant. Specialists were dispatched to the scene, who evacuated 93 employees and inspected the territory for explosive devices. Nothing dangerous was found. Operational search activities were carried out by employees of the Internal Affairs Directorate and the KGB Directorate for the Vitebsk Region, during which the caller was identified and detained. He turned out to be a resident of Vitebsk, born in 1976, previously not convicted, and employed. During the investigation, it was established that he tried to check how quickly law enforcement agencies would respond to his call in this way. The damage caused by the false miner's actions is still being assessed. He was detained on the basis of Article 108 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Belarus. -0-