Suspected dangerous object in Gothenburg

– We consider the situation that sharply until further notice and work with it as a special event, so we can call in the appropriate resources, says police presstalesperson Christer Fuxborg about the case that can be classified as grossly unlawful threat.

the Clock 7.48 alerted to a person on the way to work to it hung a bag on the door of the workplace behind Götaplatsen. In the bag appeared what looked like a bomb, and police blocked immediately by an area approximately 150 metres from the object and at 10 o'clock, widening the gate. Around 70 people have been evacuated from the surrounding area.

summoned and will investigate as well the subject as the site around – after at 10.10, there was a loud bang, without subsequent drama, which Fuxborg notify was the result of ”a police action”. The police do not feel there is any threat to someone or some that are linked to the current property.

" It was one of our employees who discovered it, became suspicious and sounded the alarm. A normal picture of the day is, unfortunately, that the scientists being threatened, and in some substances, it is more such, but something like this we have not been before, " says Jörgen Svensson, head of security at the university of Gothenburg, which has the National secretariat for gender research in the building.

informed the police that it would reduce the barricade to finally just cover the building, but the work began in the first at 11.20, then also the patrols left the site. Bombteknikerna will as soon as it is possible to report whether the object was a sharp charging or not.

the Text is updated.