Police: Sweden Bombs a Terror Attack (Wall Street Journal)

STOCKHOLM - Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt urged patience Sunday as police continued to investigate two explosions in Stockholm on Saturday afternoon is a person dead and two others wounded in what security services are treated as a terrorist attack.

Swedish authorities say two explosions last Saturday in Stockholm are crimes of terror, while the local media reported an explosion caused by a suicide bomber. Video courtesy of Reuters.

"Three things has occurred in a narrow space of time yesterday: a car exploded in Olof Palmes Gata, a man made Bryggargatan and a press agency and [Swedish security service] SAPO received a warning,"Mr Reinfeldt said Sunday press conference.""

The two explosions occurred minutes interval near Drottninggatan, a pedestrian shopping street at the Centre of Stockholm, packed with shoppers who scattered panic car gas cylinders containing an Audi station wagon White Christmas, exploded and ignite worm 5 hours.

A few minutes later, a 28-year-old man died to what the Swedish media said was an apparent suicide bombing of a few hundred metres from the car. Witnesses reported seeing a man lying on the floor subsequently with blood seem to come from his abdomen and news reports said there was a bag of nails on the ground beside him. Two people were taken to hospital with minor injuries.

"We cannot confirm that events are linked, of course, it raises questions," Mr Reinfeldt said, urging people to go to conclusions or act in any hastily.

Prime Minister of EPA Swedish Fredrik Reinfeldt in a press conference in Stockholm Sunday on the suicide attack on the previous day in the city centre of Stockholm.

Officials said SAPO explosions were treated as an act of terrorism, said Sunday, but he refused to give details.

"Until now, the investigation focuses primarily on human" SAPO, Anders Thornburg, Swedish security service Chief said Sunday press conference. He refused to indicate if there are links between the incidents or whether someone else was involved but simply said: "it could be."

Mr. said Thornburg explosions have been treated as an act of terrorism, but that is not necessarily a threat to the Sweden.

"What has happened is very serious, but our assessment is that what occurred did not alter our assessment of the level of threat in Sweden," he said.

Police said they were aware of the email, but could not immediately confirm a link to the explosions.

The Swedish media reported that an email has been sent minutes prior to the explosion of news TT containing a reference to Lars Vilks, agency responsible for a series of drawings depicting the Prophet Mohammed as a dog controversial Swedish artist in 2007, as well as the military presence in Afghanistan Sweden.

"Now your children, daughters and sisters will die as our brothers and sisters and children die,"The news agency quoted the email saying."" The Sweden has approximately 500 soldiers serving in the international assistance force to NATO-led security.

M. Vilks, who lives in the South of the Sweden faced numerous death threats and a plot to murder alleged since her drawing was published by Swedish Nerikes Allehanda regional dailies to illustrate an editorial about the importance of freedom of expression.

Mr Reinfeldt asked people to remain calm while the security services investigate the events.

Be patient and let the justice system do its work. My job is to be clear and stick to what we know. When we get answers, we will have a discussion on what we do in terms of security. "We learned the opposition and there are ongoing discussions with other authorities," he said.

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