White powder at four locations in Verden and Thedinghausen

Employees made a call from 39, emergency, so that a large number of firefighters, ambulances, THW and Police approached. In the end, it should show that at least this substance was harmless. The state's Criminal Investigation Bureau did on-site investigations and gave the green light early in the afternoon. During the day, envelopes, also coated with a white powder, appeared in the Thedinghauser branch of the Sparkbade and in the private apartment of a bank employee in Verden

already at 8 o'clock in the district house. The disturbing white matter hit and the staff set off the alarm. In a short time, the main entrance was closed, but the police evacuated only parts of the building. The Special Forces Dangerous Goods of the Fire Brigade and the Technical Organization of Welfare (THW) went to work in close cooperation with a specialized job team of the samples of the l & # 39; criminal investigation. The envelope has been secured and transmitted in the greatest possible safety precautions.

While we were still waiting for this, drove into the neighborhood of a Deutsche Post employee. He was not irritated by the barriers. He was received by the police but only with the priority issue, it was his second delivery this morning. When he answered in the affirmative, the baffled man was taken directly to an ambulance.

The mission in the district was not over yet, when the next emergency call arrived. The headquarters of Kreissparkbade also received a shipment of white powder and set in motion the same rescue and rescue mechanism. Other fire brigades from the surrounding villages were nachalarmiert. The LKA was only a short distance from Lindhooper Straße this time.

The same number of suspicious envelopes had been found in the bank, reported Dennis Köhler for district firefighters. His comrades and THW Ortsverband Verden moved here in addition to the police and rescue services and secured the sites. "As a precaution, several people who had been in contact with the envelopes were taken in charge by the ambulance service, according to the police report, according to Köhler, a total of 17 people were decontaminated by the police. rescue service.Nobody was injured.

The specialists were able to conduct their investigations on the spot and identified the substance until early in the afternoon.The police reported that both were completely harmless powders.

A hundred of members of the local fire brigades Döhlbergen-Rieda, Eitze, Kirchlinteln, Holtum-Geest, Hönisch-Hutbergen, Scharnhorst, Verden and Walle as well as the THW OV had Verden Köhler listed the envelopes alone until now

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But there should be no peace. At 3.30 pm, the next alarm arrived. This time, envelopes of unknown substance had been found in the branch of the Kreissparkbade in the Samtgemeinde Thedinghausen. As a spokesman for the police Jürgen Menzel reported a little later, one had also found in the private apartment of a bank employee such an envelope. However, he was not able to say anything about the white matter in the two mail items.