STOCKHOLM: Israel’s embassy in Stockholm was the goal of an tried assault, the ambassador mentioned Wednesday (Jan 31) after a bomb squad destroyed what Swedish police known as “a harmful object”.
Police mentioned the “reside” machine had been discovered by workers contained in the premises of the Israeli embassy within the Swedish capital, with out specifying what the item was.
“We had been alerted at 1.08pm by the embassy that they’d discovered an object they believed to be harmful,” Daniel Wikdahl with the Stockholm police informed AFP.
An space across the object was closed off and Wikdahl added that the nationwide bomb squad had been known as to the scene and had determined to destroy the item.
“The thing has been destroyed by the nationwide bomb squad, and our evaluation is that it was reside,” the police officer mentioned.
Police have opened an investigation, however Wikdahl declined to specify what the item was, citing the continued enquiries.
“At present we had been topic to an tried assault towards the Embassy of Israel in Stockholm and its workers,” Israeli ambassador to Sweden Ziv Nevo Kulman mentioned in a publish to X.
“We won’t be intimidated by terror,” Kulman added.
