Two men in their 30s were arrested by the police task force on a train at East station in Umeå late Tuesday night.
– They have expressed various threats, says Tobias Höglander , RLC officers at police in northern Sweden, Aftonbladet.
the threats should have been about crimes the men were planning to carry on board the train, police said in Västerbotten Courier.
the major police operation was launched in connection with a night train arrived at the station in Umeå, just before eleven o’clock on Tuesday evening. Police cordoned off the entire station.
– Call received about two men who sat and spoke various threats on the train. And so it was a major effort, including the local task force, says Tobias Höglander, RLC officers at police in Västerbotten.
– since arrested two men. The arrest went quiet until they are brought to the police station in Umeå for questioning.
Can you say something about what was the threat made by?
– no, I can not, says Tobias Höglander.
the event is classified as unlawful threats.
“They shouted that there was danger of death”
the arrested men are suspected have threatened to carry out any form of crime on the train, said police team leader in place Västerbotten Courier.
A witness tells how he ran straight into the police operation.
– I had been out hunting pokémon, like so many others, and when I came driving to the roundabout I was stopped by police in rough outfit, he said.
the man then saw how the police evacuated the passengers from the train.
– It was serious. Police shouted at people approaching the train to turn around, they screamed that there was danger and that everyone should leave the area. They were determined, said the witness.
Did not arrest
According to him, the police several times in the train, but he did not they intervene.
– The seems that most occurred inside the station. The train enters the station.
SOS Alarm sent two ambulances to the scene, but no person had brought from there to the hospital.
– No one was loaded and ambulances are back, says Sofia Abrahamsson in the SOS Alarm’s press office.
SAPO not involved
Security Service, the Security Service, is not involved in the case.
– no, we’re not engaged, says Clas Olsson at SAPO’s press office .
the train, with the number 91, came from Lulea and would have gone from Umeå at 22:03 on the Stockholm and Gothenburg. Now expected to train departing around midnight, according to the Finnish Transport Agency.
Ann-Katrin Backlund at SJ’s press office says that around 250 people on the train. She says it was either the train staff or traffic management who contacted the police in connection with the event.
– It was we who contacted police. I have no information about the incident even more than that it is one of our night train that is stopped and there is a police board the train, she said.
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