The police and emergency services are alerted to Gottsunda in Uppsala on Saturday evening. The reason is that there must be a dangerous object with a risk of explosion.
– A caller gets in touch with us and believes he has seen a dangerous object in connection with multi-family buildings, says Tobias Ahlén-Svalbro, press spokesperson for the police in the central region.
The object later in the evening turned out to be a sharp hand grenade.
– Where it comes from for the preliminary investigation to investigate, says Tobias Ahlén-Svalbro.
Attempts at public destruction
The alarm came just before 6pm on Saturday evening. The police waiting for the National bomb protection. No one has been injured and residents of the multi-family building have been moved in.
– We are now investigating the incident as an attempt to cause public destruction and a violation of the law against explosive goods, says Tobias Ahlén-Svalbro.
The police cordoned off the area and asked people moving in the area to respect them and follow the instructions we have at the scene.
Does the object have any risk of explosion?
– We will render the object harmless ourselves shortly and then a bang will be heard, says Tobias Ahlén-Svalbro.