>Pipeline explodes on Anniversary of Independence >>An explosion has hit a gas pipeline connecting Lithuania and Latvia. >>The blast happened in the Panevezys county, northern Lithuania, said the country's gas transmission operator Amber Grid. >>Lithuanian broadcaster LRT said the village of Valakeliai, with about 250 inhabitants, was being evacuated as a precaution. >>More here 👉 https://trib.al/He3e8rd >A gas pipeline has exploded in Lithuania, according to officials, as the country marks a historic day in its struggle for independence from the USSR. Lithuania’s public broadcaster, reported there were no injuries from the blast in the centre of the country, but that flames shot up 50 metres high. >Today, Lithuania marks the Day of Freedom Defenders to honor those who were killed by Soviet troops on 13 January 1991 in the capital Vilnius, as the country broke away from the USSR. >Fourteen people died and hundreds were injured defending the TV tower, as Russian troops tried to topple the new Lithuanian government that had declared independence the year before in 1990.