{"id":539853,"date":"2026-05-06T18:12:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=539853"},"modified":"2026-05-07T10:35:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T07:35:34","slug":"lithuania-does-not-consider-recent-railway-accidents-to-be-sabotage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lithuania-does-not-consider-recent-railway-accidents-to-be-sabotage","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania Does Not Consider Recent Railway Accidents to Be Sabotage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Two railway accidents in Lithuania last week showed no signs of sabotage, Lithuanian Prime Minister <b>Inga Ruginien\u0117<\/b> said.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cWe do not see sabotage in these cases; in both instances there were technical and human errors,\u201d<\/i> she told journalists after a meeting of the government\u2019s National Security Commission, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrt.lt\/ru\/novosti\/17\/2918033\/litva-iz-za-dvukh-avarii-poezdov-za-tri-dnia-vsio-eshchio-vozmozhny-zaderzhki\">writes<\/a> LRT.<\/p>\n<p>The causes of the two accidents are being established, Lithuanian Transport Ministry Chancellor <b>Tomas Daukantas<\/b> said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, in one case wagons carrying crushed stone derailed because of overheating bearings and wagon running gear. In the second case, according to preliminary information, the train was directed onto the wrong track.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, May 1, several wagons carrying crushed stone derailed at the Gud\u017ei\u016bnai station. On Saturday, May 2, <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-railways-derailment-in-lithuania-delays-trains-on-kaliningrad-route\">a locomotive and four freight wagons carrying methanol derailed<\/a> in the Kaunas district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two railway accidents in Lithuania last week showed no signs of sabotage, Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginien\u0117 said. \u201cWe do not see sabotage in these cases; in both instances there were technical and human errors,\u201d she told journalists after a meeting of the government\u2019s National Security Commission, writes LRT. The causes of the two accidents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":539852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/69fc40ca29205.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lithuania Does Not Consider Recent Railway Accidents to Be Sabotage"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}