Swedish police probe suspected suicide terror attack

France24 12/12/2010 17:39

Sweden on Sunday probed two bomb blasts that killed a person in central Stockholm as a "terrorist crime", as an Al-Qaeda-linked website claimed one of its militants had carried out the suicide attack.

Saturday's explosions -- a suspected suicide attack and separate blast -- targeted Christmas shoppers in a busy pedestrian quarter of the Swedish capital. Two people were also injured.

"We are opening an investigation into a terrorist crime," Anders Thornberg, head of the security unit of domestic intelligence Saepo, said Sunday. "We suspect that it was a suicide attack."

The man who died may have been the attacker, Thornberg added, but noted: "We will not draw conclusions too quickly."

"If this was a suicide attack, it will be the first in Sweden," he noted.

Meanwhile an Islamist website called Shoumoukh al-Islam published a photograph of the man it said was the attacker.

"It is our brother, mujahid Taymour Abdel Wahab, who carried out the martyrdom operation in Stockholm," it said. The photograph showed a man in dark glasses and Western clothes.