Fire breaks out at Osipovichi station in Belarus. Were it rail partisans?

A fire broke out in the new building of the Linear Center for Railway Transport Services at the Osipovichi-1 station of the Belarusian Railway.

This is reported by the railway magazine Railway Supply with reference to the information of the community of Belarusian railway workers.

The report notes that on May 16, 2022 at 04:12 at the Osipovichi-1 station (Mogilev branch of the Belarusian Railway), a new building of the Linear Transport Service Center caught fire. The fire was extinguished by the emergency services.

As a result of the incident, several rooms of the station technology center were completely burned out, including the equipment located in them.

“The event was noted in the traffic certificate as a malfunction of electrical equipment. Now there is a trial, the version of arson is also being considered,” the community clarifies.

As previously reported, more than 60 people were detained in Belarus for participating in the rail war. The partisans destroyed the signaling equipment in order to counter the occupation of Ukraine by Russia.

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