8/22/22, 1:14 PM Police confirm bomb found at busy Stockholm festival

CRIME

Police confirm bomb found at busy

Stockholm festival
Police in Stockholm have confirmed that the suspect bag which led them to
interrupt a concert at a popular summer festival on Sunday night did indeed
contain a bomb.

Published: 22 August 2022 17:14 CEST

Dur Dur Band International plays at Stockholm Culture Festival on Sunday night.
Photo: Fredrik Sandberg
/ TT

A police officer discovered the bag at 9.40pm on Sunday evening at the Kungsträdgården
park — one of the three sites of the then ongoing Stockholm Culture Festival.

Police then interrupted a concert taking place, and cordoned off Strömgatan, Strömbron
och parts of the Kungsträdgårdsgatan park, while a bomb disposal squad came in to deal
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with the device. 

“We took this extremely seriously right from the start,” Erik Åkerlund, local police chief
in Stockholm’s Norrmalm district, told the DN newspaper. “There were a lot of people
moving around, so we cordoned off a large area.” 

According to the Aftonbladet newspaper, bomb technicians blew apart the bag at around
1am. 

Åkerlund said that although the bomb contained explosives, it was too early to tell
whether it was capable of being detonated.

Police have yet to identify or arrest a suspect, and are currently talking to witnesses and
analysing the photo and video evidence people have sent in. 

According to Linnea Monteiro, who is leading the Culture Festival, the stage at Carl XII
square could not be used on Sunday night as it was within the police cordon, however the
festival was able to continue at its other areas. 

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CRIME

Man dead in Sweden shopping mall shooting

was target: police
The man who has died in a shooting at a shopping centre in Sweden was the
target of the attack, police said on Saturday, as a woman hurt in the same
attack remained in hospital.

Published: 20 August 2022 10:06 CEST

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A man and a woman were wounded in a shooting at a mall in the southern city of Malmo
on Friday, with the man eventually succumbing to his injuries, the police said in a
statement, adding that the woman was receiving medical treatment.

Everything indicated that the 31-year-old man was the intended target of the shooting,
Petra Stankula, Malmö chief of police, said at a police press conference about the shooting
on Saturday morning, Swedish newswire TT reported.

The woman who was seriously injured was “probably just a passerby”, Stankula added.

According to Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter, the dead man was the leader of a criminal
gang in Malmö.

Over the last 12 months, several explosions and shootings have been linked to a conflict
between the gang and another network.

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