Explosions in Stockholm

Coriolanus

Can someone grab some links and post the article text? Just saw this on BBC but I'm on a mobile.

1 dead apparently, at least one explosion was sourced to a car containing gas canisters.

Edit: figuresd out how to copypasta on the phone

One person has been killed and at least one other hurt as two explosions rocked the centre of the Swedish capital, Stockholm, police say.

A car blew up near the busy shopping street of Drottninggatan, and another explosion hit nearby minutes later, AP news agency quoted police as saying.

A man's body was discovered after the second blast, the agency reported.

Swedish Aftonbladet newspaper showed images of a burning white car. The cause of the blasts is not yet known.

Rescue services spokesman Roger Sverndal said the car which exploded had contained gas canisters, AP reported.

A former AP worker, Gabriel Gabiro, was close to the second blast.

"I saw some people crying, perhaps from the shock," he told the agency.

"There was a man lying on the ground with blood coming out in the area of his belly, and with his personal belongings scattered around him."

Aftonbladet said police had cordoned off the area and emergency services were at the scene.

KeithM89_old

One dead:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11977524?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

drdeadlift

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-11/car-explosion-in-stockholm-leaves-one-person-dead-two-injured-police-say.html

up for anything

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/12/11/sweden.explosion/index.html

Two explosions rocked central Stockholm on Saturday, killing one person, injuring two others and damaging a vehicle, Swedish police said.
"One explosion happened at the intersection of Drottninggatan and Olof Palmes Gata. This was the car that exploded multiple times," said police spokeswoman Petra Sjolander.
A second explosion occurred about five minutes later, at the intersection of Drottninggatan and Bryggargatan streets, Sjolander said. A man was found dead at the scene.
"We don't know at this point what caused the second explosion," Sjolander said.
In the first incident, multiple blasts went off in a car at a major shopping district in the city that was full of holiday shoppers, according to Sjolander.
"It is likely that this was some kind of gas tubes that have caused the car to explode multiple times," she said.
Sjolander said that "we don't want to speculate" whether the explosions were intentional or an accident.
Two people at the site of the car explosion were taken to the hospital with minor injuries, she said.
"There is no risk of any further explosions as we see it and the car will now be examined," Sjolander said.

Coriolanus

KeithM89 wrote: »

One dead:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11977524?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Sweden: Stockholm blasts kill one and injure one other
One person has been killed and at least one other hurt as two explosions rocked the centre of the Swedish capital, Stockholm, police say.
A car blew up near the busy shopping street of Drottninggatan, and another explosion hit nearby minutes later, AP news agency quoted police as saying.
A man's body was discovered after the second blast, the agency reported.
Swedish Aftonbladet newspaper showed images of a burning white car. The cause of the blasts is not yet known.
Rescue services spokesman Roger Sverndal said the car which exploded had contained gas canisters, AP reported.
A former AP worker, Gabriel Gabiro, was close to the second blast.
"I saw some people crying, perhaps from the shock," he told the agency.
"There was a man lying on the ground with blood coming out in the area of his belly, and with his personal belongings scattered around him."
Aftonbladet said police had cordoned off the area and emergency services were at the scene.

meglome

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11977524

Sweden: Stockholm blasts kill one and injure one other

One person has been killed and at least one other hurt as two explosions rocked the centre of the Swedish capital, Stockholm, police say.

A car blew up near the busy shopping street of Drottninggatan, and another explosion hit nearby minutes later, AP news agency quoted police as saying.

A man's body was discovered after the second blast, the agency reported.

Swedish Aftonbladet newspaper showed images of a burning white car. The cause of the blasts is not yet known.

Rescue services spokesman Roger Sverndal said the car which exploded had contained gas canisters, AP reported.

A former AP worker, Gabriel Gabiro, was close to the second blast.

"I saw some people crying, perhaps from the shock," he told the agency.

"There was a man lying on the ground with blood coming out in the area of his belly, and with his personal belongings scattered around him."

Aftonbladet said police had cordoned off the area and emergency services were at the scene.

enda1

Sweden: Stockholm blasts kill one and injure one other

One person has been killed and at least one other hurt as two explosions rocked the centre of the Swedish capital, Stockholm, police say.

A car blew up near the busy shopping street of Drottninggatan, and another explosion hit nearby minutes later, AP news agency quoted police as saying.

A man's body was discovered after the second blast, the agency reported.

Swedish Aftonbladet newspaper showed images of a burning white car. The cause of the blasts is not yet known.

Rescue services spokesman Roger Sverndal said the car which exploded had contained gas canisters, AP reported.

A former AP worker, Gabriel Gabiro, was close to the second blast.

"I saw some people crying, perhaps from the shock," he told the agency.

"There was a man lying on the ground with blood coming out in the area of his belly, and with his personal belongings scattered around him."

Aftonbladet said police had cordoned off the area and emergency services were at the scene.

Here ye go

cml387

One person has been killed and at least one other hurt as two explosions rocked the centre of the Swedish capital, Stockholm, police say.
A car blew up near the busy shopping street of Drottninggatan, and another explosion hit nearby minutes later, AP news agency quoted police as saying.
A man's body was discovered after the second blast, the agency reported.
Swedish Aftonbladet newspaper showed images of a burning white car. The cause of the blasts is not yet known.
Rescue services spokesman Roger Sverndal said the car which exploded had contained gas canisters, AP reported.
A former AP worker, Gabriel Gabiro, was close to the second blast.
"I saw some people crying, perhaps from the shock," he told the agency.
"There was a man lying on the ground with blood coming out in the area of his belly, and with his personal belongings scattered around him."
Aftonbladet said police had cordoned off the area and emergency services were at the scene.

Sugar Free

Go teamwork!

Coriolanus

MediumWell wrote: »

Go teamwork!

Just watching sky news. They don't have it on yet. Go go interweb.

TheZohanS

Multiple blasts are generally the work of Al Qaeda...

fryup

the CIA targeting wikileaks

?

Son Of A Vidic

TheZohan wrote: »

Multiple blasts are generally the work of Al Qaeda...

Indeed, cars packed with gas cylinders have been a recent modus operandi of theirs. It was tried in Times Square and the West End, amateurish but deadly nonetheless.

Stky10

Hmmm I passed very close by there this afternoon. It would have been jammed with people.

Coriolanus

Stky10 wrote: »

Hmmm I passed very close by there this afternoon. It would have been jammed with people.

Do you speak Swedish and if so, anything on local radio etc?

Stky10

Nevore wrote: »

Do you speak Swedish and if so, anything on local radio etc?

Bits, but I'm not listening to local radio. Trying other sources. Here's a link to the local news in English. No updates so far..

http://www.thelocal.se/

EDIT: Some local newspaper links.. use Google Translate to read them... there is an entrance to the underground just behind the car that exploded. At 4:50 it would have been busy

http://www.dn.se/sthlm/bil-exploderade-i-centrala-stockholm-1.1225750
http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/en-person-dod-efter-explosion-i-centrala-stockholm_5802621.svd
http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article8265103.ab
http://tv.expressen.se/nyheter/inrikes/1.1992477/live-stockholm

What. The. Hell?

Why is Stockholm being targeted?

punchdrunk

Deleted User wrote: »

What. The. Hell?

Why is Stockholm being targeted?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Security_Assistance_Force#Contributing_nations

500 troops in Afghanistan


thats if it's Al Qaeda

Coriolanus

Might be a new actor. It's not the Chinese' style but the Nobel was just on in the city.

punchdrunk

punchdrunk wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Security_Assistance_Force#Contributing_nations

500 troops in Afghanistan


thats if it's Al Qaeda

Yet Germany, France and Denmark all have much more troops.. why Sweden? If it was terrorists, do you think this is the targeting of major European countries that caused a panic a few weeks back?

I hope it wasn't terrorists though.

orourkeda

Are they filming coronation street in stockholm now.

JONJO THE MISER

Bloody Al-Qaeda:mad:, piss off back to the dark ages.

Has it been confirmed whether it was a carbomb or a gas explosion?

Duggy747

I wouldn't be suprised if this was from Al-Qaeda

Multiple car explosions are usually their calling card.

Coriolanus

Well it wasn't the municipal gas net if that's what you mean. The police seem to have confirmed at least one car contained gas canisters.

dan1895

Nevore wrote: »

Might be a new actor. It's not the Chinese' style but the Nobel was just on in the city.

Was that not on in Oslo?

Coriolanus

dan1895 wrote: »

Was that not on in Oslo?

Yeah, it was. I always mix the scandies up.:(

Overheal

Duggy747 wrote: »

I wouldn't be suprised if this was from Al-Qaeda and the plan was fast forwarded because of that recent video of Dutch soldiers killing insurgents that got fairly popular in the past few weeks.

Multiple car explosions are usually their calling card.

Its the calling card of multiple terrorist organizations, it's like saying bullets are the calling cards of the mafia.

Dozen Wicked Words

Duggy747 wrote: »

I wouldn't be suprised if this was from Al-Qaeda and the plan was fast forwarded because of that recent video of Dutch soldiers killing insurgents that got fairly popular in the past few weeks.

Multiple car explosions are usually their calling card.

Wouldn't they target the Netherlands then?

Holybejaysus

Deleted User wrote: »

What. The. Hell?

Why is Stockholm being targeted?

Fundamentalist religious extremists tend to hate Western values en masse. Every Western country is a potential target, including Ireland.
They will exploit any security weakness.

ilovesleep

Wish they would come here and target leinster house and take down our government for us.

Duggy747

dooferoaks wrote: »

Wouldn't they target the Netherlands then?

Durrrr, my fault, for some reason I was thinking of Netherlands My head has been up my arse all day.

Overheal wrote:

Its the calling card of multiple terrorist organizations, it's like saying bullets are the calling cards of the mafia.

I know that, I meant more so due to the fact that the Swedes have forces in Middle East that it would seem more likely they would perform this rather than other terrorist groups there.

Anyways, I'm only saying IF, we'll wait to see who takes responsibilty for this.

ilovesleep

ilovesleep wrote: »

Wish they would come here and target leinster house and take down our government for us.

You do realise that realistically they'd target places like O' Connell Street and not Leinster House, right?

What a horrible thing to say.

Coriolanus

ilovesleep wrote: »

Wish they would come here and target leinster house and take down our government for us.

as little as
I like the govt, I wouldn't wish death on them

Refugee from RealLife

ilovesleep wrote: »

Wish they would come here and target leinster house and take down our government for us.

That's a terrible thing to say even on an internet forum. You should be ashamed. Go to sleep.

Rasmus

ilovesleep wrote: »

Wish they would come here and target leinster house and take down our government for us.

Although most of us are unhappy with our current government, this comment is off the rails...

Nolanger

Holybejaysus wrote: »

Every Western country is a potential target, including Ireland.

No they won't. Not with our defence forces!

Hal1

http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/12/10/36603905.html :eek:

dan1895

Nevore wrote: »

Yeah, it was. I always mix the scandies up.:(

Sure they all look the same anyway, with their tall build, blonde hair and rugged jaws:D

Son Of A Vidic

Nolanger wrote: »

No they won't. Not with our defence forces!

I wouldn't be to sure about that, the Shannon stop over has a strategic value to the yanks.Therefore we could be viewed as being complicit .

Refugee from RealLife

Nolanger wrote: »

No they won't. Not with our defence forces!

I wanted to add my thanks but don't know how.

Funny post.

Thanks

Overheal

fryup wrote: »

the CIA targeting wikileaks

?

Im going to take this comment at face value and just say that's very unlikely. Lets forget the fact that the explosion was in a public street and not at a cold war bunker and add the fact that the CIA has much subtler less violent means at their disposal, particularly by the way of cyber warfare. If it had been within a mile of the wikileaks' host facility it would have been there in the headline.

"CIA targeting innocent Swedish Nationals" :rolleyes:

Paddy Samurai

Was in stockholm 2 weeks ago at the christmas market , lovely city ........... espechially around galma stan.
At the time we were booking one of the mates was reluctant to go because he had heard about bomb threats over there at the time.We laughed at him and told him to get a grip.:o
We went in for a drink on that street...........a bar called pickwicks.Fairly busy pedestrian street when we were there, glad not more people were killed/hurt.


Hope they get the bastards,before they do it again.

Son Of A Vidic

Refugee from RealLife wrote: »

I wanted to add my thanks but don't know how.

Funny post.

Thanks

Click the thumbs up button on the right-hand bottom corner, of the relevant post you like. It's the big thumb after the quote/reply icons.

arybvtcw0eolkf

ilovesleep wrote: »

Wish they would come here and target leinster house and take down our government for us.

Terrorist attacks on Leinster House would likely strengthen our government position as the people would rally behind them.

And in case your too young to remember terrorism in Dublin..

At 59 seconds there's an account from an eye witness to a lady murdered on South Leinster St. - not a 100mtrs from Leinster House.

Refugee from RealLife

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

Click the thumbs up button on the right-hand bottom corner, of the relevant post you like. It's the big thumb after the quote/reply icons.

I don't have thumbs

Overheal

Refugee from RealLife wrote: »

I don't have thumbs

How do you use the spacebar?

Refugee from RealLife

Overheal wrote: »

How do you use the spacebar?

Ha ha,

What's a spacebar?

Overheal

Refugee from RealLife wrote: »

Ha ha,

What's a spacebar?

beatle

According to some newspapers in sweden, there was a threatening email sent to TT 10 minutes before the explosion, mentioning both Swedish troops in Afghanistan and the artist Lars Vilks (remember his illustration with Muhammed that caused a lot of stirr...)

The Swedish police have not confirmed that this email and the explosions are linked though.

Stky10

beatle wrote: »

According to some newspapers in sweden, there was a threatening email sent to TT 10 minutes before the explosion, mentioning both Swedish troops in Afghanistan and the artist Lars Vilks (remember his illustration with Muhammed that caused a lot of stirr...)

The Swedish police have not confirmed that this email and the explosions are linked though.

Yeah.. mentions it here now

http://www.thelocal.se/30776/20101211/

BTW the area around Pickwicks is totally pedestrianised. The area this happened in isn't. That the first car was parked almost directly outside an underground stop makes me think it was aimed to cause mass death and injury.