Sweden: Gothenburg bomb convicted suspect found dead | News | DW
A man that Swedish police were looking for in connection with an explosion in the city of Gothenburg last week was found dead on Wednesday morning, the Swedish prosecutor’s office states.
The blast on September 28 killed 16 people and seriously injured four people.
Police found the body of a 55-year-old man in the river in the middle of Sweden’s second largest city. “The body has been identified as the man wanted by the police and the prosecutor’s office in the last week after the explosion in a residential building in Annedal,” it is said according to Reuters.
Police said they do not suspect that any crime has been committed in relation to the body they found.
The police are continuing the investigation
The explosion occurred early on in an apartment complex in the Annedal district. The fire spread to several homes.
About 140 apartments were cleaned, SVT reported.
“It is nice that he has now been found – even though we had hoped that he would live”, says the police chief in greater Gothenburg, Anders Borjesson.
“We understand that the fact that the search was delayed for so long has caused concern among the public. Investigations will continue so that we can get a clearer picture of the course of events and the causes of the explosion,” he added.