Officers of special purpose squad broke bricks over their heads on Pancake Day (Photo)

• 2.03.2009, 9:39

Officers of the Belarusian special purpose squad were breaking bricks over their heads, holding competitions in tug of war, and molding snow sculptures.

The internal troops of Belarus had own traditions of celebration of the end of winter. Officers of special purpose squad in military town Akolitsa (the Minsk district) in their won way: they were wrestling, breaking burning bricks over their heads, and molding snow sculptures.