The ship, which was on a private cruise, had to change its route for safety reasons.
Doubt of an explosive closed the port of Ikaalisten Laivaranta on Friday evening. An explosive has possibly been lifted from Kyrösjärvi. Due to the discovery, access to the shipping port was blocked.
The Internal Finland Police Department said on Twitter at 21:04 that a citizen has found a possible explosive at the bottom of the lake. At 9:38 p.m., the Internal Finland Police Department said on Twitter that the object suspected of being an explosive has been removed and the area is in normal use.
M/S Ikaalinen, which was on a private cruise, had to change its direction on Friday evening due to the suspicion of explosives. Captain of the ship Markku Kukkula says that he received information from the police in the middle of the cruise that he cannot enter the port for security reasons until the explosive has been identified and dismantled.
“I was told that the so-called magnet fishermen might have found an old explosive in the lake. The fishermen had lifted it onto the pier, and it will be on the pier until an expert comes to move it safely away,” says Kukkula.
“Nothing like this has really happened before in my career.”
M/S Ikaalinen’s home port is Ikaalisten Laivaranta. Due to the suspicion of explosives, the cruise ship had to head to the beach of Ikaaliste spa instead of the home port on Friday evening. At 20:35, M/S Ikaalinen had reached the shore of the spa and the passengers off the ship.
On a cruise Aamulehti’s longtime editor who was involved Jorma Huovinen says that there were 33 passengers and two crew members on board. Despite the change in direction, the atmosphere on the ship remained calm, according to Huovinen.
M/S Ikaalinen had left for a cruise from Ikaalisten Laivaranta on Friday after 3 p.m. The cruisers were supposed to return to the ship’s shore on Friday evening.
The Defense Forces advises on its website to call the emergency number and wait for the police if you encounter a projectile or explosive in a civilian area. You must not handle unexploded ordnance yourself. Defense forces mark and clear unexploded ordnance in their own areas.
The Defense Forces were informed at 20:59 that the Defense Forces have not received a request for official assistance from the police on Friday evening. The defense forces are also not on duty in Ikaalis on Friday evening.
The media phone of the Sisä-Finland Police Department reported earlier on Friday evening that the police had no information about the mission at Ikaalisten Laivaranta. Pirkanmaa’s rescue service does not have a task at the Ikaalinte jetty.
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