Two police officers remain in hospital after the gas alarm

Eight people, including several police officers, had to go to hospital with breathing problems after Friday’s gas alarm at the Security Police’s headquarters in Solna.

As of Saturday morning, two police officers are still being treated at the hospital.

– Right now there are two police officers left in hospital who are still unwell, says Anna Westberg, press spokesperson at the Stockholm Police to The evening paper.

But the police state to TV4 Nyheterna that the state of the damage is unclear.

– At seven o’clock in the morning, there were two police employees who were still at the hospital. It is unclear exactly how they are doing, says Anna Westberg, the police spokesperson to TV4 Nyheterna.

It is still unclear what caused the gas alarm.

The operation ended in the afternoon and the cordons were lifted, after the rescue service established that there was “no gas either inside the premises or outside the building”, stated Säpo.

The police are investigating the cause of bodily harm and, according to TV4Nyhetern’s information, the alarm was about the very dangerous combat gas Phosgen, but according to Säpo, no traces of gas were ever found.

The text is updated

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