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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. | 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. | 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 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. | 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. | 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. | The explosion wasn't immediately being investigated as terrorism. |
| "It is fair to believe that this is a consequence of the good police work we do," senior officer Patric Heimbrand told a news conference. | |
| "We work in heavy criminal environments and some of them could be irritated. But to those I'd say that we cannot be influenced." | |
| Regional police chief Carina Persson told a news conference that Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven had been informed of the blast as is customary after such incidents, but she didn't elaborate. | |
| Ms Persson declined to comment on whether there could any links to a similar blast on 30 November, 2014, against a police station in Malmo which hasn't been solved. |