{"id":272848,"date":"2023-09-01T07:20:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T07:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=272848"},"modified":"2023-09-03T07:08:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T07:08:30","slug":"swedish-cities-hit-by-four-residential-explosions-in-an-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=272848","title":{"rendered":"Swedish cities hit by four bomb explosions in an hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AFP \u2013 Aug 31, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Swedish-police-cordon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-272850\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Swedish-police-cordon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Swedish-police-cordon.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Swedish-police-cordon-480x288.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 620px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Bomb squad experts have been called in after Swedish cities were rocked by four explosions in an hour, police have said, with the country struggling to rein in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/27\/sweden-seeks-to-stem-deadly-rise-in-youth\">a rise of gang-related violence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Just after 1am local time (midnight BST), police in Gothenburg received reports of two explosions at separate addresses, 10 minutes apart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth sites have been cordoned off and technical investigations are ongoing,\u201d police said, adding that the national bomb squad had been called to the scene. \u201cThere are no reports of people being injured, only material damage,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p>An hour later another two explosions were reported minutes apart \u2013 one in Norsborg, a suburb south of Stockholm, and the other in Nyk\u00f6ping, about 62 miles (100km) south of the capital.<\/p>\n<p>In both cases, police said no one was hurt. All four blasts were at residential buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Sweden has struggled to contain an increase in shootings and bombings in recent years as gangs settle scores fuelled by the drugs trade.<\/p>\n<p>Gothenburg police told Agence France-Presse it was too early to speculate on a motive for the two blasts in the city.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, there were 90 explosions and 101 cases of attempted bombings or preparations for bombings in Sweden, according to police data. As of 15 August this year, 109 explosions had been recorded.<\/p>\n<p>Police have previously said bombs are mainly used to intimidate targets, while shootings are used to kill enemies.<\/p>\n<p>The country registered 391 shootings in 2022, 62 of them fatal, up from 45 the previous year, according to police data.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/31\/bomb-experts-called-in-after-swedish-cities-see-four-explosions-in-just-over-an-hour\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2022 sixty people died in shootings in Sweden, compared to four in Norway, four in Denmark and two in Finland. The Swedish killings are gang-related and have been on the rise ever since the country adopted an open borders immigration policy. That may change now that Stockholm has tightened immigration controls but the damage has been done, leaving a fragmented society plagued by gang violence <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-european-migrant-crisis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272848"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272872,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272848\/revisions\/272872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}