“There were four crew members: two Spaniards, a German and a Lithuanian,” said Julija Samorokovskaja, a spokeswoman for Vilnius police. “One of the Spaniards was killed,” while the wounded were hospitalized. The condition of one of the injured “is very serious,” said Jurgita Juozaityte Markeviciene, a spokeswoman for Vilnius University Hospital.
During the crash, followed by a fire, an apartment building caught fire. The authorities specified that all residents had been evacuated safely.
Investigation
The authorities, who have opened an investigation, remain cautious about the causes of the crash, while not ruling out a terrorist act. Darius Jauniskis, the head of the Lithuanian intelligence services, considered that it was “premature to associate (the crash) with anything”, while indicating that he could not “exclude the possibility of a terrorist act”.
The German Foreign Minister said Monday that the crash could be “an accident or a hybrid incident” linked to external intervention, “like last week”, referring to the recent breakage of two telecommunications cables in the Baltic Sea. for which sabotage is not excluded.
Incendiary packages
At the beginning of November, several people were arrested in Lithuania and Poland in a case of incendiary packages sent by plane to different European countries, the traces of which could, according to several capitals, lead to Russia. This summer, packages containing incendiary devices were found in DHL warehouses in Germany and Britain, where they caught fire. In Poland, a package also set fire to a DHL truck, according to the daily Gazeta Wyborcza. An adviser to the Lithuanian president for national security then attributed this operation to Russia.
