Third grenade attack in week rocks Sweden

Police were called to the scene at Hålsjögatan in Malmö shortly after midnight on Friday after a grenade exploded outside a council offices building. Windows were shattered in the powerful blast which damaged several cars parked outside.

“Our forensic teams have concluded overnight that it was caused by another hand grenade,” police control room officer Peter Martinsson told Swedish Radio on Friday morning.

No one was injured in the explosion, which is the third in a series of attacks in the southern Swedish city only this week.

On Thursday several cars and homes were damaged after a hand grenade was thrown at a building in a residential area of Limhamn in western parts of the city, just two days after a blast outside a community centre destroyed two cars and injured one man.

Malmö has experienced a summer of violence with numerous shootings and explosions taking place in recent weeks.