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Swedish police brave rockets, grenade and axeman on NYE
Swedish police faced a hand grenade attack, youths firing rockets and throwing powerful bangers at them, and an axe attacker in an unusually busy New Year’s Eve.
Swedish bomb squad blow up LIVE shell from the 30s
An entire Swedish village had to be evacuated on Wednesday when the Swedish Armed Forces blew up a 380-kilo shell that had lain in a garden for 86 years.
Police investigate new blast in troubled Gothenburg suburb
Swedish police are investigating an explosion at an apartment in the Biskopsgården suburb of Gothenburg just two weeks after an eight-year-old boy was killed when a hand grenade was thrown into a building in the same area.
Gothenburg grenade blast is 'part of a cycle of violence'
Is escalating gang crime behind the death of an eight-year-old boy in a Gothenburg suburb? The Local spoke to criminology professor Jerzy Sarnecki and organized crime expert Amir Rostami for their thoughts.
Sorrow for boy killed in Gothenburg gang attack
Residents have reacted with grief and anxiety to the murder of an eight-year-old boy who was killed when a hand grenade was thrown into a Gothenburg apartment on Monday.
Boy, 8, dies in Swedish hand grenade blast
UPDATED: Police are investigating if an explosion which killed a child in Gothenburg suburb Biskopsgården on Monday morning is a revenge attack.
Malmö home rocked by suspected grenade blast
Swedish police are investigating a suspected grenade attack on a home in Malmö on Wednesday.
PM: ‘We will not give an inch to violence’
In a keynote summer speech in Vasaparken in Stockholm, Swedish prime minister and Social Democratic leader Stefan Löfven took a hard line against the recent spate of crime and violence in Sweden - what he called “the summer of unrest”.
Malmö shaken by another grenade attack
Malmö in southern Sweden was last night hit by a fourth hand grenade attack in under a week – just 48 hours after another explosion rocked residents in a series of blasts in Sweden's third largest city this summer.
Police use stun grenades to take woman's child
Police have been criticized for using stun grenades when taking an infant child away from its mother, after she pulled a knife and refused to cooperate.
Pensioner leaves grenade at recycling depot
Police were called to a recycling depot in Lidingö in Stockholm on Saturday after an elderly lady handed in a grenade.
87-year-old's grenades prompt police panic
A police station in western Stockholm was evacuated in panic on Thursday after an elderly man turned in two grenades for confiscation.
Mowing Swede finds live bombshell in garden
A man in southern Sweden, busy mowing the lawn of his private garden near his home between Trelleborg and Ystad, was shocked to see something unexpected sticking out of the ground.
Live grenade detonated in central Malmö
Emergency services and bomb technicians were called to an address in central Malmö after a live grenade was found in a courtyard by a school and apartment block.
Military drops grenades in northern Sweden
Six grenades that fell from a military transport truck in northern Sweden on Wednesday have yet to be recovered despite a wide ranging search to recover the missing munitions.
Outrage over hand grenade Christmas balls
A decision by the Swedish Army Museum (Armémuseum) to raise money for charity by selling hand grenade-shaped Christmas tree ornaments has sparked a storm of criticism from disgusted visitors.
Grenade explodes in Malmö apartment
An explosion reportedly caused by a hand grenade ripped through an apartment in Malmö in southern Sweden early Wednesday morning in what police have classified as an attempted murder.
Two explosions shake Gothenburg
Police in Gothenburg continue their search for suspects believed to be involved with two separate explosions that rocked different parts of the city on Sunday night.
Activists break into Bofors weapons plants
Activists broke into two facilities associated with weapons manufacturer Bofors in the early hours of Thursday morning and claim to have damaged up to 20 grenade launchers.