Officers of Ukrainian law enforcement agencies confiscated weapons, cartridges, baseball bats and wooden sticks from a Lviv-Kyiv train.

Policemen examined Passenger Train No. 142 after they were alerted of a bomb allegedly planted on the train, a Ukrainian Interior Ministry spokesman said.

Up to 200 people were evacuated from the train.

Six improvised explosive devices, two sawed-off hunting rifles, cartridges and wooden sticks were seized from some of the passengers.

A criminal investigation has been opened on the counts of the illegal possession of weapons, ammunition and explosives (Part 1 of Article 263 of Ukraine's Penal Code).