Fire Attacks against camps for EU migrants – Swedish Radio

It attacks a camp for European migrants were subjected to this night we Älvsborgsbron, has proven to be greater than police previously thought.

Two of the residents were attacked with machetes and hammers by an unknown man who also torched several caravans – three out of four were totally destroyed.

The dark-clad man should have begun to cut with a machete against a tent while he poured some kind of liquid on the caravans and tent. The woman who was in the tent got cuts on the one hand and the other residents woke up when she screamed.

A man then came out of the caravan and he was then attacked by the dark-clad man who hit him with a hammer or baton in the head.

After the suspect ran from the scene while the caravan was on fire. Three out of four mobile homes completely destroyed in the attack.

– He must have decided to make an attack when he has a machete, hammer and liquids, said Thomas Fuxborg, spokesman for the police in West Bengal .

The information has come to the police after they interrogated the eleven who lived on the site. The suspected man left a backpack on the site and the police hope that it will lead to an arrest.

– I do not want to disclose what we have found in the backpack but we hope it will lead to an arrest with the help of DNA evidence, or similar, says Fuxborg.

Police headlining the event as aggravated arson and aggravated assault.