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SWEDEN on Sunday probed two bomb blasts that killed a person in central Stockholm as a 'terrorist crime', as an Al-Qaeda-linked website claimed one of its militants had carried out the suicide attack.
Saturday's explosions - a suspected suicide attack and separate blast - targeted Christmas shoppers in a busy pedestrian quarter of the Swedish capital. Two people were also injured. 'We are opening an investigation into a terrorist crime,' Anders Thornberg, head of the security unit of domestic intelligence Saepo, said on Sunday. 'We suspect that it was a suicide attack.'
The man who died may have been the attacker, Mr Thornberg added, but noted: 'We will not draw conclusions too quickly.' 'If this was a suicide attack, it will be the first in Sweden,' he noted. Meanwhile an Islamist website called Shoumoukh al-Islam published a photograph of the man it said was the attacker.
'It is our brother, mujahid Taymour Abdel Wahab, who carried out the martyrdom operation in Stockholm,' it said. The photograph showed a man in dark glasses and Western clothes.
The same photo was published in Swedish newspaper Expressen on Sunday with the face blurred. An official for the paper's photo department told AFP that there was 'quite enough evidence' to say that it was the picture of the attacker.
But a Saepo spokesman, Carolina Ekeus, refused to comment on the Islamist website's claim.
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