A powerful explosion occurred at the entrance to an apartment building in Norrköping just before midnight on Sunday. It is the second explosion within 24 hours in the city, but no one was injured in the latest incident. Police are investigating it as endangering the public.
The alarm about the explosion came in to SOS just after 11 p.m. on Sunday, November 23. Multiple callers reported a loud bang in areas such as Ingelsta or Sandbyhov in southern Norrköping. Räddningstjänsten Östra Götaland confirmed the incident and dispatched 15 firefighters to the scene.
"I can confirm that it is an explosion. We have 15 firefighters on the way there," said the duty officer at the rescue service.
Police cordoned off the area around the apartment building and conducted a search of the stairwell. No one was found injured, and residents in the building were sheltered in their apartments. Images from the scene show major damage to the door and broken windows. A neighbor described the bang as "the world's bang" and noted that the windows shook.
"My partner and I had gone to bed. Then suddenly we heard the world's bang," said neighbor Jimmy Öhman.
The National Bomb Protection Unit was called in to examine the site. The incident is classified as endangering the public and violation of the law on flammable and explosive goods. No suspects are identified at this time.
This is the second explosion in a short time. Early Sunday morning at 5 a.m., a similar event occurred in Ljura or Ingelsta, where a man in his 70s was slightly injured and taken to hospital. Police are investigating possible connections between the explosions.
At the same time, police handled a separate operation in the Lindö area from 10:30 p.m., where a suspected dangerous object was found and four villas were evacuated. The National Bomb Protection Unit was also heading there, but no connection to the explosion has been confirmed.
