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Anti-personnel mine found at administrative building in eastern Ukraine

DONETSK, March 05. /ITAR-TASS/. Law enforcers have found an anti-personnel mine at the building housing eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk regional authorities on Wednesday, chief press officer of the Donetsk city police department Olga Pochkalova told Itar-Tass.

“A pressure-action anti-personnel mine was found. According to operational reports, it was already taken away from the administrative building to a firing range, where it will be destroyed,” she said.

The regional administrative building is fully cordoned off by police, no one is permitted to go inside.

The anonymous bomb threat call came on the police hotline on Wednesday morning. Policemen and regional emergency workers evacuated all people from the building.