POLICE IN THE UK are searching a property in Luton as part of an investigation into a double bombing in Stockholm, Sweden, at the weekend.
A car bomb exploded in a busy shopping district on Saturday at around 5pm, and minutes later, a man blew himself up nearby.
One man, believed to be the bomber, was killed and two people were injured.
The Telegraph reports that Taimur Abdulwahab al-Abdaly is thought to have carried out the attacks and had been living in the UK until about a fortnight ago. He studied and lived in Luton, north of London, and it is believed his wife and three children still live there.
His neighbour said he used to see him out walking with his children and seemed nice. He said he was shocked when he heard what had happened “because I never thought he could do such a thing”.
According to a profile he listed on a dating site, al-Abdaly said he had been born in Baghdad and moved to Swedeen in 1992, then the UK in 2001 to study, the BBC reports.
Eyewitnesses captured this footage of the explosions on their mobile phones (warning: contains some graphic material):
Police are investigating the explosions and are treating them as a “crime of terror”. Swedish news agency TT claims it received email warnings 10 minutes before the explosions. The emails did not specify the location of the attack.
The warning, which included audio recordings in Swedish and Arabic, referred to Sweden’s presence in Afghanistan and the Swedish cartoonist who depicted Muhammed in highly controversial cartoons. Sweden has 500 soldiers in Afghanistan and plans to pull those troops out between 2012 and 2014.
[caption id="attachment_57289" align="alignnone" width="511" caption="A Police officer stands outside the property on Argyll Avenue in Luton, Bedfordshire, being searched as part of the investigation into Saturday's bombing. (Chris Radburn/PA Wire/Press Association Images)"]
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