{"id":592301,"date":"2026-10-22T09:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T06:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=592301"},"modified":"2026-10-22T10:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T07:13:11","slug":"smugglers-weather-balloons-explode-after-hitting-power-lines-in-lithuania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/smugglers-weather-balloons-explode-after-hitting-power-lines-in-lithuania","title":{"rendered":"Smugglers\u2019 Weather Balloons Explode After Hitting Power Lines in Lithuania"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Two weather balloons used by smugglers exploded in Lithuania on Wednesday. This was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delfi.lt\/naujienos\/kriminalai\/i-elektros-laidus-atsitrenke-kontrabandiniai-balionai-sprogo-ir-uzsidege-120322815\">reported<\/a> by Delfi, citing the fire service.<\/p>\n<p>At around 6 a.m., firefighters were called to the settlement of Dotnuva near K\u0117dainiai. When emergency crews arrived, they found that a weather balloon carrying contraband had struck a power line, exploded and caught fire. Its debris was burning on the roadside.<\/p>\n<p>A similar incident occurred near Kai\u0161iadorys. Local residents also heard an explosion there. It turned out that a weather balloon carrying contraband had hit live wires and caught fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weather balloons used by smugglers exploded in Lithuania on Wednesday. This was reported by Delfi, citing the fire service. At around 6 a.m., firefighters were called to the settlement of Dotnuva near K\u0117dainiai. When emergency crews arrived, they found that a weather balloon carrying contraband had struck a power line, exploded and caught fire. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":526462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ad9b78d111eb.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Smugglers\u2019 Weather Balloons Explode After Hitting Power Lines in Lithuania"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592301","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=592301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592302,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592301\/revisions\/592302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}