Gothenburg Trains in Gothenburg and Södertälje, sweden, have been stopped and had been cleared out because of bomb threats. National bombskyddet are now in place to examine the train in Gothenburg, sweden. – The threat is targeted against a specific train, ” says Ulla Brehm of the police.
A train on the way to Gothenburg central station and a train in Södertälje, sweden, have been dismantled because of a bomb threat. Police received information about the threats just before 14.00 on Thursday.
the Train in Gothenburg has been stopped a few hundred metres before the main train station and the police bombgrupp are now in place to examine the train. At the same time the clatter of the police helicopter in the air above the train, and a massive polispådrag is at the southern philippines train.
the Police presstalesperson Ulla Brehm said that police are investigating the train and trying to get clarity surrounding the circumstances around the situation. At 15.40-time had no suspicious object was found on the train in Gothenburg, sweden.
Hunting for the guilty
the Event is regarded by the police as a special event, which means that the police can ask for reinforcement from across the country.
” What we’re doing right is that we are on site and form an understanding and get information. The threat is targeted against a specific train, and not the Centre. The work to find out who is behind this threat are in time. The police have been doing research, ” says Ulla Brehm.
Ulla Brehm at the moment, no details regarding the threats against trains in Gothenburg and Södertälje, have no connection.
– But there is nothing we can rule out, ” she says.
Police have launched a preliminary investigation regarding the gross unlawful threat against the group after the threat.
According to witnesses, there are several ambulances on-site in the vicinity of the stopped train in Gothenburg.
Both the train station in Gothenburg and the train in Södertälje, sweden, is the MTR.
“Began to shake and cry”
Two of the passengers on the train in Gothenburg that was on the way to Gothenburg central station from Stockholm, sweden to tell the GP about the evacuation.
We sat in the train. They said that we had been bombhotade and that they would examine the train. We were not allowed to take our bags. We began to cry and shake. But not thinking about stuff like that happens a yourself, ” says one of the women.
Witnesses said GP to people in a panic ran out from Gothenburg central station by reason of the bombhotet. According to the staff at the central Station, there should not be any organized evacuation, but that it is about the people who on their own accord fled out of the station.
train service stopped
the Swedish transport administration states that the train traffic is stopped from and to the Gothenburg central station.
” the Police requested a stop in traffic and pulling trains at the station. Now we are sitting in a meeting and awaiting the police. – The traffic is completely still. 20 the train is stationary at the station, ” says the Swedish transport administration’s press officer Bengt Olsson.
Alli Pat is one of all travelers who were stranded at the Gothenburg central station.
” It feels legibly and boring if they are the scorpion. It is easy to thoughts far away. I don’t know when my train to Lund yesterday, and I am considering now that I have to take me there. Now, I have waited for almost two hours, ” says Alli Klapp.
Train in Södertälje, sweden evacuated after new bomb threat
Shortly after the train in Gothenburg bombhotades also received a train in Södertälje, sweden, a bomb threat. Several hundred people have been evacuated from the train.
” We have received a bomb threat against a train on the way to Stockholm. The train has stopped in Södertälje south and all passengers have been evacuated. Techniques are on the way and we will do a study, “says Sven-Erik Olsson, presstalesperson at the police in the Stockholm region and continues:
– It is yet unclear exactly where the train is standing in Södertälje, sweden, resigned from it, but it came from the south,” says Olsson.
Carina Skagerlind at the Police state that currently do not want to tell you how the threat to the station in Södertälje, sweden communicated.
the Technician is on site to investigate the train, we have established certain barriers in the vicinity of the site, says Skagerlind.
150 people evacuated
Åsa Elm is communications manager MTR running both trains in Gothenburg and Södertälje, sweden.
” We have evacuated the train, on the orders of the police. It’s about 150 people that have been dismantled.
How have these threats been delivered?
– I can’t answer at the moment, ” says Åsa Elm.
the Chaos in the public transport
Västtrafik said that public transport in large parts of the city affected by the bombhotet in the vicinity of the main train Station.
– It will make quite a big impact. We’ve had to put on a lot of traffic in terms of both trams and buses, says Jens Holmberg on Västtrafik’s press service.
Holmberg tells the continued to several delays, is to wait.
” the Police have made the assessment that we still are able to run on Drottningtorget square, on the other hand, there are no trams on the fast track that runs next to the train track that runs by the side of the GP house. It has drawn on so that they go through Redbergsplatsen instead. The buses also go with the modified drive past the Centre. This of course means delays, both in tram and bus services, ” says Jens Holmberg.
Gathering around the Old Ullevi stadium
Around the Gamla Ullevi in Gothenburg has several rescue teams gathered for the threats. The police stated that it will set up a meeting place outside of the arena with the reason of bombhotet against the train in Gothenburg, sweden.
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