“Naturally, different thoughts may arise when two events occur within a few days, but at this point, it is really difficult to say that this is not related to infrastructure or other circumstances. (...) Investigations will answer all questions, and there is no need to engage in speculation prematurely,” said Taminskas to journalists in the Kaunas district on Sunday. He responded to a question about whether the incident in the Kaunas district is linked to sabotage. “Investigations have been initiated, the Ministry of Justice's Security Investigation Department is conducting an investigation, and (Lithuanian) Railways is also conducting its own investigation. We are evaluating these two situations, which occurred on Friday and yesterday, from all angles, and during the investigations, an answer will be provided as to why this happened, and the investigations will indeed be thorough,” the minister indicated. According to him, the ministry hopes to receive the results of these investigations in a month or two. “There are many different versions, all of them are being evaluated, analyzed, and none are being dismissed,” said Taminskas. He made this statement after a locomotive and four freight cars heading to Duisburg derailed near the village of Vingiai in the Kaunas district around midnight on Sunday. The Kaunas Fire and Rescue Department received a report of the incident at 23:43, and upon arrival, the rescuers found the train driver conscious. According to firefighters, the incident was technical, and no hazardous chemicals were released into the environment. Police investigators were also working at the scene. Kaunas County Police representative Odeta Vaitkevičienė informed BNS that a pre-trial investigation into the accident has not been initiated, and the circumstances are being clarified. According to the police, the main version of the incident is technical reasons, and no signs of criminal activity have been established so far. According to the acting general director of LTG (Lietuvos gelezinkeliai, Lithuanian Railways) Arūnas Rumskas, since two accidents occurred in a short period of time, company representatives will investigate those versions that would otherwise have been “postponed or considered less likely.” “Now we will investigate everything with the same seriousness, including possible cyberattacks,” said Rumskas. He described the accident site as a rather complex junction with many switches, where the European gauge of 1435 mm intersects with the broad gauge of 1520 mm. “There, the train (of the same train – BNS) is standing on the European gauge, and here are two branches of the old gauge, then again European. The train had to cross two old gauges to re-enter the European one. The junction is complex and difficult to manage,” said the head of LTG. The train, consisting of more than 20 cars carrying various cargoes, was traveling from Palemonas in Kaunas to the city of Duisburg in Germany. The derailed cars were supposed to be unloaded there with trailers for tractors. It was reported that several cars of the train, which remained standing on the track, were also carrying methanol. “(Methanol was being transported – BNS), but those cars are intact, they are further down the train, nothing happened to them. There was no methanol spill, and no harm was done to nature,” said Rumskas. According to him, only a small amount of coolant leaked. In other cars, wood was being transported, and the head of the carrier could not name all the cargoes that are not owned by LTG. “There is both misfortune and luck in this accident; the most important thing is that the train driver was not injured. He was checked by an ambulance, taken for examination at the hospital, and released home; he is alive and well,” noted Rumskas. As LTG previously reported, the accident disrupted 22 passenger services in the southern and eastern directions of Lithuania, which could have affected about 800 passengers. He emphasized that bus transportation was organized for passengers of the affected services. The head of LTG predicted a relatively quick restoration of the damaged tracks. “Railway tracks can be restored very quickly by specialists. It looks complicated, but with the right equipment and specialists, it is a matter of hours,” noted Rumskas. As reported by BNS, this is the second similar railway incident in three days. Last Friday, several cars carrying gravel derailed in the Kėdainiai district at the Gudžiūnai station. Due to the accident, train movements on the Vilnius–Klaipeda–Vilnius, Vilnius–Šiauliai–Vilnius, Kaunas–Šiauliai–Kaunas, and Vilnius–Riga–Valga routes were disrupted, and on Saturday, movement was restored with train delays averaging half an hour.