One, warned by a local resident, slowed and managed to cross the bridge on the side that suffered little damage.

It is believed that the bombing is connected to the Coup of the Volunteers in September 1993 when about 150 armed men from the Lithuanian National Defence Volunteer Forces (then known as Savanoriškoji krašto apsaugos tarnyba or SKAT) left their posts and presented political demands as well as to the murder of SKAT officer Juras Abromavičius who was investigating the coup and the bombing in January 1997.

Aldona Juozapavičienė, a local elderly woman, heard the explosion and organized her grandson and two neighbors to help warn and stop the oncoming passenger trains from both directions.

[3] For their efforts in alerting and stopping the trains, the four local residents were awarded the Life Saving Cross by President Algirdas Brazauskas on 9 November 1994 (decree 423).

[6] One of the men, who testified and cooperated with the investigation, claimed that the bombing was supposed to disrupt Russian military transport with the Kaliningrad Oblast and send a message of support to Chechnya in its armed struggle for independence from Russia.