Stockholm Bombing
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Timeline
- December 11 2010
- One person killed and two others hurt by two blasts in the centre of the Swedish capital, Stockholm, amid reports of a bomb attack. The car exploded at 1700 (1600 GMT) on Saturday (11 December 2010) and the second blast occurred 10 to 15 minutes later on a street about 300m (300yds) away, police spokesman Kjell Lindgren said. Swedish press report that the second blast was a suicide bomber, but police said no cause had yet been determined.
- A local news agency, TT, said it had received a threatening e-mail shortly before the blasts, which called for "mujahideen", or Islamist fighters, to rise up in Sweden and Europe. [1]
- December 12 2010
- Officials say the two explosions in Stockholm are being investigated as a "crime of terror". Swedish security police have not yet released the dead man's name, although director of operations Anders Thornberg says they now have a clearer idea about him. Meanwhile the Swedish media named a 28-year-old man of Iraqi origin as the suspected bomber.
- Swedish police are investigating a set of e-mails sent shortly before the blasts threatening attacks because Sweden had sent troops to Afghanistan. [2]
- December 13 2010
- Stockholm Bomber named as Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly. Chief prosecutor Tomas Lindstrand said police were "98% sure" of this. Abdaly was named as the registered owner of the car. Meanwhile, British police searched Abdaly's house in Luton. His wife and children are reported to live in the UK, although their exact whereabouts are not known.[3]
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Notes
- ↑ Stockholm shopping blasts kill one and injure two(12 December 2010),BBC News website, accessed 21 December 2010
- ↑ Stockholm blasts: Sweden probes 'terrorist attack, 12 December 2010, BBC News Website, accessed 20 December 2010
- ↑ Stockholm bomber 'aimed to kill many people', 13 December 2010, BBC News Site accessed 20 December 2010
