Oslo police detonate suspicious package

Oslo police were summoned to deal with a suspicious package, Saturday night, April 8.

“What has happened is that a police patrol came across a guy in the Gronland area who acted in a suspicious manner,” said Police Commander Svein Arild Jorundland. “In relation to this individual the police found an object which we need to investigate.”

The bomb squad was called in to deal with the device, which did seem to be explosive.

“It was a louder bang than it usually is with the device the bomb squad normally use to neutralize an object,” Commander Jorundland explained “So there has been something there that exploded, but what it was I can’t answer at the moment.”

So far Norway has not called the package a “bomb” and has not identified the incident as a terrorist attack.

Police throughout Scandinavia were on high alert after an attack in Sweden on April 7 killed four people.

The suspect in that attack, a 39-year-old man from Uzbekistan, was a known ISIS sympathizer who was wanted by the police.