The head of Lithuania s national gas transmission system says a powerful gas pipeline explosion that prompted the evacuation of a village in the Baltic country was most likely caused by a technical malfunction
LRT, Lithuania’s public broadcaster, reported that there were no injuries from the blast in the center of the country, but that flames shot up 50 meters high.
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