A young woman was seriously injured Saturday by a blast in southern Sweden, police said, describing it as deliberate as the country battles an increase in criminal use of explosives.
As much as 15-20 kilos of industrial explosives – placed in a cargo bike – was used to carry out the bomb attack in Linköping in June, making it up to almost 40 times as big as charges used in recent attacks in Malmö.
The 44-year-old man who threatened to detonate a bomb at Malmö's Central Station is likely to be found guilty of aggravated illegal threats and violence against a public official, Malmö District Court said on Tuesday. He will now be sent for a psychiatric examination.
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The number of attacks with explosives has increased significantly so far this year, according to the latest official figures, with 93 attacks up until the end of May.
An appeals court in Sweden has freed the last of three men arrested last May on suspicion of planning a terror attack, judging it could not be proven he had decided to carry it out.
UPDATED: The main police station in the Swedish city of Linköping was on Wednesday cordoned off after a suspicious object was found placed by the entrance, but police were later able to confirm it did not contain explosives.
Skavsta airport was evacuated at lunchtime on Wednesday following a scare over a suspected explosive device in a bag, which turned out not to be dangerous.
A naval mine from the 1930s found near a popular swimming spot on a Stockholm island still contained explosives, the Swedish Armed Forces has revealed.
An 86-year-old mine has been found near an island in the southern part of Stockholm’s archipelago, not far from a sandy beach where revellers swim in the summer time.
A car owned by a police chief working in Swedish university city Uppsala exploded outside the man's house in Stockholm during the early hours of Monday morning.
Swedish authorities closed the Allum shopping mall in Partille outside Gothenburg on Sunday after receiving 'credible' information about a possible bomb.
UPDATED: Two men were arrested for joking about a bomb at one of Scandinavia's busiest airports, which sparked travel delays for passengers on Wednesday.
