(AP) Sweden’s Security Service said Thursday it had arrested four people on suspicion of preparing “terrorist offenses” with links to Islamic extremism and organized crime.
The service did not say where or when the alleged attacks were to have taken place, but in a brief statement it added that it had “worked on the case for a long period of time.”
Several houses were searched in the operation, which involved “violent Islamist extremism” with “connections to serious organized crime,” the statement said.
Sweden media reported there was a major police operation in Tyreso, south of Stockholm, and public broadcaster SVT said there was a “powerful explosion in a clubhouse” but it was unclear what caused the blast.
