Suspicions have been brought against two environmental protection officers over a huge fire at a tire recycling facility in Lithuania's southern city of Alytus, prosecutors from Lithuania's second-largest city of Kaunas said on Monday.
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Prosecutors investigating October's fire a tire recycling facility in the southern town of Alytus have brought formal suspicions against the director of Ekologistika, the plant's owner, and its employee responsible for environmental compliance.
The first amounts of dangerous waste should be removed from the place of the recent large-scale fire in Lithuania's southern city of Alytus soon, the country's Environment Minister Kestutis Mazeika says.
A Vilnius court on Wednesday heard testimony of witness Valeriy Ivanov, the leader of the pro-Soviet Yedinstvo organization, in the trial over the 13 January 1991 attempted coup.
The town of Alytus in southern Lithuania has opened the country's highest pedestrian bridge.
