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Mystery blast shakes Malmö neighbourhood

On Friday night, a heavy explosion shook the Malmö neighbourhood Hermodsdal, in southern Sweden, breaking windows and damaging cars.

There were no reported injuries from the explosion and the neighbourhood did not have to be evacuated, according to Jimmy Modin of the Skåne police force, who spoke with the TT news agency.

On Saturday morning, the police’s technical investigation of the site was finished.

“It’s still unclear exactly what detonated, but now we’re going to analyze the finds we made on the scene,” said the Skåne police force’s press contact Nils Norling to the local newspaper Sydsvenskan.

As well as analyzing what was found, the police are now be interviewing witnesses.

Several curious people living in the area came out and gathered on the streets after the explosion, but according to the police the atmosphere remained calm, reported Sydsvenskan.

The police were alerted to the scene at 9.36pm, and sent a large squad to investigate. By 10.30pm the detonation spot had been found and the area was cordoned off.

The explosion has been classified as “destruction endangering the public”.

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Denmark convicts man over bomb joke at airport

A Danish court on Thursday gave a two-month suspended prison sentence to a 31-year-old Swede for making a joke about a bomb at Copenhagen's airport this summer.

Denmark convicts man over bomb joke at airport

In late July, Pontus Wiklund, a handball coach who was accompanying his team to an international competition, said when asked by an airport agent that
a bag of balls he was checking in contained a bomb.

“We think you must have realised that it is more than likely that if you say the word ‘bomb’ in response to what you have in your bag, it will be perceived as a threat,” the judge told Wiklund, according to broadcaster TV2, which was present at the hearing.

The airport terminal was temporarily evacuated, and the coach arrested. He later apologised on his club’s website.

“I completely lost my judgement for a short time and made a joke about something you really shouldn’t joke about, especially in that place,” he said in a statement.

According to the public prosecutor, the fact that Wiklund was joking, as his lawyer noted, did not constitute a mitigating circumstance.

“This is not something we regard with humour in the Danish legal system,” prosecutor Christian Brynning Petersen told the court.

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