Posted on 09/11/2001 12:56:45 PM PDT by oxi-nato
VILNIUS, Sept 11 (AFP) - The largest hotel in Lithaunia's capital Vilnius was evacuated Tuesday evening following a bomb threat, police said. They said security services discovered the threat to the Hotel Lietuva posted on Lithuanian web sites.
The 22-storey hotel is popular with foreign tourists and is the tallest building in the capital. Police were continuing to search the building as of 8:30 p.m.but had not found any explosives.
The threat follows Tuesday's terrorist strikes against the eastern United States. Earlier, a security officer at the US embassy said the complex was being evacuated and will be shut for business in the wake of the attacks in the United States.
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