1 killed, 1 injured in explosion in Swedish capital
A powerful explosion outside an underground station in the Swedish capital of Stockholm has left one killed and another one injured.
Police said Sunday that a man in his 60s sustained fatal injuries after he picked up an object outside the Varby Gard station in the south of Stockholm around mid-morning.
Police said on their website that the man died in hospital after succumbing to injuries. The injured person was a woman aged 45 who suffered light facial injuries.
Security forces cordoned off an adjacent square while checks by the bomb squad were going on.
A police spokesman declined to confirm a report in the daily newspaper Aftonbladet that said the object the slain man had picked was thought to have been a hand grenade.
“There is obviously something that has exploded strongly ...But we will have to wait for the technical investigation,” said the official
The report by Aftonbladet did not name any sources as it was the case in Expressen, another Swedish newspaper.
The spokesman said that several investigations had been launched into the case, adding that there was no reason to believe the event was linked to terrorism.
A police official, identified as Sven-Erik Olsson, also denied the incident was terrorism-related.
“It is too early to say. Technicians are still working on it. Nothing indicates that the (injured) couple were targeted,” Olsson said.
Like many countries in west and north of Europe, Sweden has faced recurrent threats of terrorist attacks, mostly by recruits of Takfiri groups based in the Middle East. The government fears that a return of nationals who fought along the terrorists in Iraq and Syria could increase the threats now that most of militant groups have been defeated by local governments.
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