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Teenager detained after explosion in Stockholm suburb

Key Points
  • A 15-year-old boy is suspected of causing an explosion in Rågsved, Stockholm.
  • No injuries were reported, but the national bomb protection unit responded.
  • The motive remains unclear, and police are investigating potential targets.

A 15-year-old boy has been requested to be detained following an explosion in a doorway in Rågsved in southern Stockholm on Monday. No one was injured in the incident. According to information to SVT, a known rapper, convicted of several crimes, is registered at the address.

Police were alerted to the scene early Monday afternoon after several people heard bangs in a doorway to an apartment building. The national bomb protection unit was called in, and the case is classified as aggravated public destruction and a crime against the law on flammable and explosive goods. A teenage boy has now been requested to be detained, suspected of aggravated public destruction.

it is part of their work to look at who could be potential targets when something like this happens, but they cannot say more about that

Anna Lärk, police press spokesperson

The motive is still unclear. Anna Lärk, the police press spokesperson, said it is part of their work to look at who could be potential targets when something like this happens, but they cannot say more about that.

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