A powerful explosion occurred on Wednesday evening in Fittja south of Stockholm.
The address is Botkyrka Turkish cultural association.
According to Aftonbladet have witnesses seen a person throwing something into the room.
Security Service has been informed about the incident – and the police’re now also other addresses.
was at 21:35 on Wednesday evening as police and emergency services were alerted to the Fittja south of Stockholm after a powerful explosion in a Turkish club rooms.
– All windows are blown but no person has come to harm, says Sven-Erik Olsson.
police cordoned off a large area around the site and flew over the area by helicopter. The patrols set up a breakpoint 300-400 meters from the premises and police, with the strengthening weapons guarded the place.
– Bomb Group is in place. They begin to move towards the association premises, reported Aftonbladet reporter Oskar Forsberg, who was on location in Fittja.
According to Aftonbladet have witnesses saw a person throwing something into the premises in connection with the blast.
– This I will not comment, says Sven-Erik Olsson at Stockholm police.
Shooting injured after the demonstration on Saturday
on Saturday shot injured a man in Fittja after the offender shot at his car which was draped in Kurdish flags. He had participated in a prokurdisk demonstration in Botkyrka earlier in the day.
According to the organizers was bout politically motivated, which the police have not yet confirmed.
Police spokesperson Towe Hägg do not want to speculate about there may be no connection between the shooting and the evening’s explosion.
– We have everything into consideration. But if there is a connection or not, I can not say.
Hägg added that the Security Service has been informed of the explosion.
According to Aftonbladet, the police surveillance in other places with Turkish connection. The task would Towe Hägg not comment.
“They threw stones at the house”
Aftonbladet has talked with people in the area as saying that the association premises were vandalized on Sunday, the day after the shooting in Fittja.
Ismail Zengin, president of the cultural association, went directly to Fittja when he heard about the explosion.
Zengin has been inside the premises, saying that the devastation is great. Windows are smashed, a wall is completely destroyed and an exploded water has led to floods.
– It is not acceptable to attack a non-profit organization in this way, he says.
police have launched a preliminary investigation of devastation endangering the public.
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