Sunday, February 21, 2016

Shopping center evacuated after bomb threat – Aftonbladet

PARTILLE / STOCKHOLM. On Sunday reached the police information about your bag, slammed the mall Allum in Partille.

the threat is assessed as credible and the building was evacuated.

Shortly after 18 o’clock went the police bomb forces into the mall.

– The person who alerted had heard a call. Where this was said or what was said, I do not know, says Christer Fuxborg, spokesperson for the police.

According to the police, these are about a suspected bomb threats leveled at the mall in Partille outside Gothenburg. They assess the information as “credible” and decided to Allum be evacuated and kept closed the rest of the day.

On Sunday, it has come to their attention that a number of people talked about it to pop a bag.

– the person who alerted had heard a call. Where this was said or what was said, I do not know, says Christer Fuxborg, spokesperson for the police.

– But the overall picture is that the interrogator had led us to take this seriously.

A large number of police’re now building. Employees at the mall has got to give up their keys. Police also searched the roof of the building.



Bomb Robot looking bag

– National Bomb Group, with the assistance of a robot to search through the building, says Fuxborg.

– the physical search strip made by police officers, dogs and bomb protection. There is a fairly large and complex building that can take hours to crawl. We will do this systematically.

At 17:53 run multiple reinforced police vehicles until Allum, reports Aftonbladet Petra Thorén from places.

A moment later began bombing forces to enter the mall together with bomb dogs.

– They told us to back away, says Petra Thoren.

According to Aftonbladet linked the threat to a bag, which should be somewhere in the mall. The police confirmed on his website.

“The police are taking the threat very seriously,” they write. SVT News is a police earlier said that “a realistic threat has been pronounced.”



“Everyone must go”

Emma Heather works in a store in the mall.

– We were asked to close shop and vacate immediately. the guards almost shoved us out. Some were calm and went out, others ran, she says.

When the evacuation began at 13:30 o’clock was Thomas on Ica Maxi. from the staff and through loudspeakers reached most of the information that they had to leave the building immediately.

– all must go out now, they said, and we left very quickly, says Thomas.

He says that the police with reinforcement weapons guarded the entrances and exits.

Emergency services in place

– We got information to take us a few hundred meters from the mall to be on the safe side says Thomas.

Although emergency services involved in the operation.

– We are there with three resources to assist the police and if there would be any explosion or the like, says Lars Jostelius at emergency services in Greater Gothenburg, the TT news agency.

Please also refer emergency services to the police for more information about the ongoing operation.

– the police sitting on information, said Jostelius.

Security Service: We know the effort

the Security police (SAPO) feel to the event.

– But it’s Gothenburg police leading the investigation. As the routine is at this type of event, we are of course ready to assist if needed, said Mark Vadas, communications manager at Sapo.



“The victim of a bomb threat”

– Allum is victim of a bomb threat, says Håkan Pekkari, center manager of Allum, said.

Centre manager says he does not know how the threat made or if something found on the mall.

– It is police holding it, says Håkan Pekkari.

the text is updated

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