A false bomb threat forced on Wednesday an emergency evacuation of 409 passengers on board a Russian train in a Belarusian city of Orsha, local emergencies services said.
The train was on route from Moscow to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad and crossed the border with Belarus, when its crew received a bomb threat warning.
The passengers were evacuated from the train immediately after its arrival in Orsha.
They had to spend several hours in the railway station's main building while the sappers searched the train for the explosives.
The threat, which was reportedly received over the phone, turned out to be false.
"At this point the passengers are boarding the train again, and it will depart for its destination soon," a local police source told RIA Novosti.
Russian authorities have tightened security measures on railways and pledged to respond immediately to any threats to railway passengers following a recent terrorist attack on the Nevsky Express high-speed train, which killed 27 and injured more than 90 passengers.
The train, which was on route from Moscow to St. Petersburg, derailed on November 27 last year after a bomb exploded on the tracks.
MINSK, January 6 (RIA Novosti)
