According to media reports, it concerns one or more suspected hand grenades, something that the police do not want to confirm.
– I have no comments on that, but the object that we have found is something that we believe could be explosive. So that’s why we have cordoned off the place and bomb protection is on its way to find out what it is, says Magnus Holmströmduty officer at the police, to TT.
At 10 p.m., the police announce that the suspicious object will be rendered harmless with a so-called controlled explosion.
“This may sound like a lot, but there is no reason for concern for the public,” the police write on their website.
Norrköping’s newspapers writes that residents were evacuated through the windows. According to Holmström, it was about people in six to eight apartments.
– We have collaborated with the municipality of Norrköping and we have gained access to a school nearby, says Holmström when asked where the evacuees will go.
The alarm came just before 6pm on Sunday.
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