Media: police in Odessa cordoned off the area because of the suspicious object
Police cordoned off the Independence square in the residential district center in Odessa due to suspicious package with carton inside, the website reports citing witnesses.
Package with box lies on a bench near a large flowerbeds. The area enclosed by the red tape. There nobody could go. Police are waiting for the technicians. From neighbouring outlets evacuate people.
on the Internet representation presents pictures cordoned off area.
first it claimed that on the night on Friday in Odessa there was an explosion at the branch of PrivatBank (Dnipropetrovsk leader Igor Kolomoisky - ed) on the Avenue Marshal Zhukov in Odessa, nobody has suffered. Police are investigating the explosion in accordance with paragraph (intentional destruction or damage of property." Later on the last working day of the week, police officers said they defused an explosive device near any of the Odessa branch of PrivatBank and another explosive device on the railroad.
during the last period of time the explosions in Odessa has occurred many times. So, on December 3 of last year's explosion at the store "Patriot" in the city centre. December 10 - in the office of the public movement "Volunteer hundred to help Ukrainian soldiers, 24 December, an explosion occurred during the passage of freight trains at the station" Post-1 ". On the night of 27 December, a bomb exploded on the street Szeged, died the man who, according to one version, was holding an explosive device. Another explosion took place in Odessa on the evening of 20 January, received damage was not.