Police have acted in two places on Thursday afternoon. Both actions are linked to the man who is charged after the explosion in Gothenburg on Tuesday.
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Police confirm that two actions on Thursday are linked to the man who is charged after the explosion on Tuesday, where 16 people were transported to hospital and four people were seriously injured.
One of Thursday’s actions was aimed at an apartment where a friend of the accused lives in the district of Annedal in Gothenburg.
“If the man is there, we will arrest him,” Thomas Fuxborg, spokesman for the police, told Aftonbladet before the police entered the home.
At 6.15 pm, the police inform that the house search did not end with any arrest, which means that the accused man is still at large.
Fuxborg says The Gothenburg Post that the police are now continuing the search for the man and will consider tips on an ongoing basis.
– We will probably do more house searches in several places during the night and evening, says Fuxborg.
Pulled out after bomb threat
One of the calls took place at a medical center in the city after reports of a bomb threat. The police bomb squad participated in the operation, the police confirm.
Task leader Claes Thorén confirms to Swedish Radio that the man charged with the explosion is linked to the bomb threat at the medical center.
As a result of the threat, several people were evacuated, including children from a nearby kindergarten.
According to the police, it was the employees at the medical center who had reported that they had received a bomb threat directed at them.
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VG spoke with spokesperson Maria Thorell in the Swedish prosecuting authority on Thursday afternoon, who would not comment on how the police had so far worked to find the man.
“Considering the crime he is charged with, he can be a dangerous person, and therefore we will try to find him,” she told VG at 5 p.m.
Charged after explosion on Tuesday
Police confirmed on Thursday morning that they have charged a person with gross public destruction after the explosion. Later Thursday, they confirm that it is a man.
Several Swedish media, including Aftonbladet and Expressen / GT, reports that it is about a man in his 50s who can be linked to an apartment in the apartment building where the explosion took place.
Early in the investigation, the police suspected that the explosion could have been linked to gang crime, but according to the police, there are no indications of this at this time.
Far back in the investigation
According to Expressen / GT the man is said to have shared an apartment with his mother in the apartment complex where the explosion took place on Tuesday. They further report that the accused and his mother have been threatened with eviction in recent months.
This information has not yet been confirmed by the police.
During a press briefing on Thursday morning, the police said that much remained in the investigation – including what was the cause of the explosion.
– The circumstances at the site have made it too hot and difficult to move, which means that the technical investigations have not started properly until today, said Klas Jonasson, regional chief of police, during the press release.
–Dramatic evacuation
Tuesday morning described the residents of the apartment building the chaotic situation which had occurred after the explosion went off early in the morning.
– There were some who shouted out in the backyard to wake people. It was more or less chaos. People were screaming and everyone wanted to go out, said resident Kritoffer to the Swede Expressen.
During the dramatic fire that broke out after the explosion, residents jumped out of windows and hid in the backyard to escape the flames. Several were also helped out by fire crews.
A total of 140 apartments were evacuated as a result of the explosion, according to NTB.
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