A man has died after he was injured in an explosion near a Stockholm subway station on Sunday that recalls the coordinated attacks in Brussels nearly two years ago.
According to local media reports, the explosion occurred late on Sunday morning outside the Vårby Gård station, injuring a man in his sixties and a 45-year-old woman. The man died at the hospital Sunday afternoon, local time.
“There was something on the ground that the man picked up, and then it exploded,” Sven-Erik Olsson of the Stockholm police told the TT news agency.
Local police say it’s unlikely that the dead man was deliberately targeted by the bombers, who left the explosives outside the station.
The Aftonbladet newspaper reported that the blast was from was a hand grenade, though police have yet to confirm whether this is true.
The subway station and the nearby square have since been closed to the public as police and bomb squads investigate the scene.
The Vårby Gård station is on the Red Line (Röda linjen) on the way to Norsberg in Stockholm’s south west.
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