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Sweden bomb: Powerful explosion heard at entrance to Helsingborg police station | Sweden bomb: Powerful explosion heard at entrance to Helsingborg police station |
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Swedish authorities say a powerful explosion outside a police station in southern Sweden has caused significant damage to the building. | |
There have been no injuries and nobody has been arrested. | |
Police haven't said what caused the blast at the police station in Helsingborg. | |
The country's top police official, Dan Eliasson, called it "an attack against society." | |
The explosion caused considerable damage to the police station's entrance and shattered dozens of windows in nearby buildings. | |
No one has claimed responsibility for the blast about 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of Malmo, Sweden's third largest city. | No one has claimed responsibility for the blast about 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of Malmo, Sweden's third largest city. |
Suburban feuds between criminal gangs fighting over territory have taken place in major Swedish cities in recent years. | |
The explosion wasn't immediately being investigated as terrorism. | |
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