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Łuniniec train robbery was an armed assault on a passenger train Alt1 adased

The daring attack was widely reported in the media and became one of the reasons for the creation of the Border Defence Corps

Background
Eventhough Poland won the Polish-Bolshevist War of 1920, the Riga Peace Treaty did not end the hostilities. Both Lithuania and the USSR were actively promoting banditry in Poland's Eastern Borderlands and armed bands often crossed the Polish border, attacking Polish farmers, police stations, targetting telephone lines, bridges, railways and civilian infrastructure. Between April 1921 and April 1924 at least 259 such incursions were spotted by Poland's border guards. Although the Polish Border Guard managed to man the entire border and fortify it with a network of outposts, Polish intelligence was severely lacking and often the bands crossing the border were better equipped and more numerous than the police units guarding it.

The attacks intensified in the spring of 1923 and reached their peak in the summer of 1924. Overnight of 18–19 July 1924 a group of roughly 30 terrorists assaulted the town of Wiszniew near Wołożyn, pillaged the shops of local merchants and escaped with the loot towards the Soviet border later that night, killing one police officer in the process. On 3 August 1924 another group, roughly 100 men strong and commanded by a Soviet border guard officer, attacked the city of Stołpce. In what became known in Polish historiography as the Attack on Stołpce seven Polish policemen were killed and several more were wounded. Altogether in 1924 alone there were 189 recorded terrorist attacks in the eastern borderlands in which 54 Polish policemen and civilians were killed and 28 wounded, while 146 Soviet agents were apprehended and 15 killed.

The attack
The delegation included the voivode of Polesie Stanisław Downarowicz, senator Bolesław Wysłouch bishop of Pinsk Łoziński and the commandant of the local National Police area Józef Mięsowicz. The delegation was escorted by a group of a dozen-or-so policemen.

The 40-men strong group stopped the train, overpowered and disarmed the escort and robbed all passengers of their valuables.

The commander of the group was a Soviet officer in charge of the nearby sector of Polish-Soviet border.

ataman Trofim Lysenko

He handed some of the passengers a note

During the pursuit most of the attacking group successfully retreated across the Soviet border while some smaller groups dispersed and disappeared into the countryside.