‘Suspect device’ behind huge flats blaze
‘A SUSPECT device may have caused an apartment building explosion in Sweden’s secondlargest city which left at least 16 people injured, police said.
The explosion took place just before 5am local time (4am BST) yesterday in the Annedal district in central Gothenburg.
A Sahlgrenska University Hospital spokeswoman said 16 people were brought in for treatment, including four – three older women and a man in his 50s – with serious injuries.
Police told Swedish broadcaster TV4 that investigators think foul play may have been involved.
They suspect someone placed a device in or just outside the building.
Officers are looking into whether any tenants were being targeted. Spokesman Thomas Fuxborg said: “We suspect that someone might have placed something that has exploded. That is the word we got when the alarm was given.”
A building resident told the daily newspaper Goteborg Tidning Hulten he saw desperate people who ‘hung from balconies, climbing over balconies. There was one who fell’.