FBI sends experts to Sweden to assist in investigating Stockholm blasts

One person was killed and two slightly injured when two cars exploded with an interval of ten minutes in Stockholm downtown on Saturday.

The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation has sent a group of experts to Sweden to help the country investigating last week's blasts in Stockholm, an FBI spokesman said.

One person was killed and two slightly injured when two cars exploded with an interval of ten minutes in Stockholm downtown on Saturday.

Spokesman Richard Skolko said the group will be assisting the Swedish police to establish the organizers of the terrorist attacks, but refused to provide further details.

The group of experts, he added, was sent upon a request from the Swedish authorities submitted with the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm.

The first blast, near Stockholm's busy shopping street Drottninggatan took place at about 18:52 Moscow time on Saturday. The second took place some 200-300 meters away from the first.

A body discovered near the car of the second blast belonged to the suicide bomber.

Swedish police and security services have been on increased alert in the past five weeks. In late October a bomb warning was issued for the country's second largest city of Gothenburg after a "reliable source" said that a blast is being prepared in the city's downtown area.

WASHINGTON, December 14 (RIA Novosti

 

 

 

 

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