Stockholm bomber ‘aimed to kill many people’
Stockholm bomber ‘aimed to kill many people’
A man who blew himself up in Stockholm was carrying three explosive devices and intended to kill as many people as possible, prosecutors say.
Chief prosecutor Tomas Lindstrand said police were “98% sure” that the man was Iraq-born Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly.
Abdaly, 28, is believed to have died minutes after setting off a car bomb on Saturday. Two other people were hurt.
Seven US FBI bomb experts are heading to Stockholm to help the investigation, Sweden’s intelligence agency said.
Although Abdaly was a Swedish citizen he had been living in the UK.
British police have been searching a house in Luton, north of London, where Abdaly lived.
Mr Lindstrand said Swedish police were now trying to work out what the bomber’s target had been before he blew himself up prematurely.
