Sweden rocked by four this Thursday explosions The incident occurred in just one hour in the country’s three major cities. All affected residential buildings but did not cause any injuries.
The first two are registered Gothenburg. Shortly after 1 a.m., police The Swedish company received reports of both explosions, which occurred just 10 minutes apart in the Olskroken and Kortedala neighborhoods. “We heard an explosion like hell,” a neighbor told local media ‘Göteborgs-Posten’.
The security forces demanded the intervention of national bombers to the scene and said, “Both places have been cordoned off and technical investigations are being carried out.” As a result of the explosion, the glass of an apartment door was broken.
An hour later, two more explosions were recorded, again a few minutes apart. The first was in Norsborg, a southern suburb. Stockholm. The second was inside Nykopinga town about 100 kilometers south of the country’s capital.
Around four o’clock in the morning, police arrested four people traveling in an explosive-laden vehicle. However, it is not known whether it had anything to do with what happened.
ongoing research
A special investigation has been launched and agents are looking for links that could link the four explosions. “We took some investigative measures, conducted door-to-door searches and spoke to people at the crime scene,” police spokesman Fredrik Svedemyr told local media.
Although the police did not want to speculate about this event, Sweden spent years fighting the riots caused by the showdown. criminal gangs related to drug traffickingcommitting so many crimes shots as attacks with bomb. According to Swedish media reports, in 2022, police recorded 90 explosions, 101 attempted assaults, and 391 armed attacks, of which 62 were fatal, in the country. By August 15 this year, there were 109 eruptions; this number is more than the entire previous year.
Police do not rule out that the explosion in the capital may be related to the murder of a 20-year-old teenager in Vällingby on New Year’s Eve. “It’s possible that this is the case and that’s one of the hypotheses we’ve been considering, but it’s too early to comment on that,” said Ola Österling, spokesperson for the Stockholm police. A man would be arrested as a suspect, according to Aftonbladet, the country’s most widely read newspaper.