In November, two homemade bottle bombs were detonated at a school in Tingsryd. The police’s preliminary investigation shows that several students at the school learned to make the “Mr Muscle bombs” – which are potentially life-threatening – on Tiktok. Now a 16-year-old boy is charged with public negligence. A 16-year-old boy is accused of causing two explosions at his school in Tingsryd last November, using homemade bottle bombs. The police have concluded that they are made according to a recipe that is spreading virally via the app TikTok. The first bottle bomb went off in a cupboard and the second in an empty corridor. Publicly dangerous carelessness The teenager is charged with public dangerous carelessness, as well as assault after punching two employees at the school in connection with his arrest. It was during an interrogation with an affected teacher that it emerged that several students at the school had told her that they had also tried to make similar bombs at home. They told the teacher to use Mr Muscle, hot water, aluminum foil and caustic soda and that they had seen how to make the bottle bombs on Tiktok. Corrosion and blindness In the police’s preliminary investigation, it appears that the “Mr Muscle bombs” can be very harmful to people: “Contact with the eyes can cause very severe corrosion with the risk of permanent vision damage and blindness. Exposure to steam can irritate the respiratory tract and give rise to caustic damage to the respiratory tract and lungs,” they write, among other things. Recently, several similar explosions have occurred at Swedish schools, including in Kalmar where four students had to be taken to hospital with burns, of which one boy was seriously injured. Principal warned The school’s principal then issued a warning regarding the bomb trend: “Challenges on social media are nothing unusual, but this one deviates and is downright dangerous. For that reason, we are sharing this information with you so that you have the opportunity to raise this at home with your children.” The 16-year-old states in the interrogation that he blew up the bombs because he heard that a chemical reaction would form and wanted to test. He also says that he got the idea from a friend, who told him how to do it. See images from the preliminary investigation in the player above.
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16-year-old allegedly blew up dangerous “Tiktok bombs” at school – charged
