The possibility of a terrorist attack cannot be ruled out, Lithuania’s police chief told reporters regarding the crash of a DHL cargo plane earlier today near Vilnius airport. He added, however, that so far there are no indications of such a thing.

“This is one of the versions that needs to be investigated and verified. We still have a lot of work ahead of us.”Arunda Pavlauskas said at a press conference.

The investigation at the crash site, the gathering of evidence, objects and information may require a whole week, explained Paulauskas. “Those answers won’t come so quickly”he added.

According to officials of the Airport, the Police and the Fire Department, one of the four members of the aircraft’s crew is dead and there are also three injured.

The head of the Lithuanian rescue service, Renatas Posela, told a news conference that the plane crashed a few kilometers from the airport, skidded hundreds of meters and its wreckage hit a residential building. It is a cargo plane that was flying on behalf of DHL and had taken off from Leipzig in eastern Germany.

DHL said from Frankfurt that the plane was making an “emergency landing” when it crashed with four people on board and that the cause was still unknown.

The building, in which it crashed, had two floors and four apartments, while three families lived in it. All 12 occupants are safe, Posella said. The fire on the plane was brought under control.

The representative of the Lithuanian rescue service, speaking to the Lithuanian news agency Elta, said that the plane was completely destroyed by the flames. Six fire engines and a tanker are on the scene, and a coordination center has been set up.

Berlin: No evidence of link between DHL plane crash and incendiary device warnings

There is no indication that the crash of the DHL plane in Lithuania is possibly linked to the German authorities’ warning over the summer about packages containing incendiary devices, a spokesman for the German interior ministry said on Monday.

“We will have to wait for the investigations to be completed”the spokesman said at a regular government press conference.

In August, German authorities warned businesses that packages containing incendiary devices had caught fire en route across Europe and that more such packages could be circulating.