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Presidential Palace evacuated following bomb threat

  • 2010-05-31
  • Oskars Magone

TALLINN - Kadriorg Palace, the residence of Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, has been evacuated after receiving a bomb threat.

A 25-year-old man from Järvamaa allegedly made the bomb threat last week, prompting authorities to evacuate the premesis. It is the first time that the presidential palace has been evacuated because of a threat.

The police searched the building and the surrounding but found no explosives.

 

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