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Emergency investigative measures in the case over an explosion in the Polish Consulate General in Lutsk have resulted in the discovery of certain ‘clues’ in the investigation, head of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) branch in the Volyn region Yuriy Feloniuk has said.

“The details are not being disclosed in the interest of investigation,” he said at a news briefing.

A criminal inquiry was launched on the count of a terrorist act, Feloniuk said. “The SBU will apply the utmost efforts to uncover and detain the culprits,” the SBU branch head said.

Progress in the investigation is under the personal control of Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov and National Police head Serhiy Kniazev, chief of the National Police main department in the Volyn region Petro Shpyha said at a news briefing.

“Police and SBU employees are working at the crime scene. The remaining pieces of the RPG-2 grenade launcher were discovered. The building was not substantially damaged, no people were hurt,” the police  department in the Volyn region quoted Shpyha as saying.

Law enforcement employees are carrying out all of the required measures, which are aimed at the exposure and detention of delinquents who are implicated in this crime.