Blasts, shooting happen near Israeli embassies in Nordic capitals

Copenhagen — 

Police successful Denmark and Sweden said connected Wednesday they were probing explosions and gunfire astir Israeli embassies successful their capitals that took spot amid spiraling Middle East tensions.

In Denmark, constabulary said 3 Swedish nationals had been arrested aft 2 blasts were reported successful the "immediate proximity" of the Israeli Embassy successful Copenhagen aboriginal Wednesday.

Swedish constabulary said the Israeli Embassy successful Stockholm had been targeted successful a shooting connected Tuesday conscionable earlier 6 p.m.

No injuries were reported from the incidents, but some came amid heightened planetary fears arsenic Iran fired missiles astatine Israel, which has vowed to respond to the attack.

"Two explosions occurred astatine 3:20 a.m. astatine the Israeli Embassy. It is our preliminary appraisal that it was owed to 2 manus grenades," Jens Jespersen of the Copenhagen constabulary said astatine a property conference.

He added that 3 Swedes betwixt the ages of 15 and 20 had been arrested.

The constabulary serviceman explained that 1 fishy was arrested soon aft the incidental adjacent the transgression country and that the different 2 had been arrested later.

Police said successful an earlier connection that 2 suspects had been arrested connected a bid astatine Copenhagen Central Station.

"It's excessively aboriginal to accidental if determination is simply a link" betwixt the blasts and the Israeli Embassy, Danish constabulary spokesperson Jakob Hansen said of the Copenhagen incidents.

By midmorning, the country successful Copenhagen was cordoned disconnected and constabulary were moving astatine the scene, an AFP analogous observed.

Denmark's quality service, PET, said it was monitoring events "closely" and assisting the constabulary investigation.

"We are besides successful dialog with the Israeli embassy astir security, and are perpetually assessing the standard of the information measures already implemented successful narration to a fig of Jewish locations," PET said successful a connection to AFP.

Writing connected X, Israeli Ambassador to Denmark David Akov said helium was "shocked by the appalling incidental adjacent the embassy a fewer hours ago."

Swedish constabulary said successful a connection that accusation indicated the Israeli Embassy gathering had been deed by shots connected Tuesday evening.

"We've made finds that bespeak a shooting astatine Israel's Embassy, but we don't privation to disclose precisely what finds person been made since determination is an ongoing investigation," Rebecca Landberg, Stockholm constabulary property officer, told AFP.

Landberg added that an probe had been opened into an aggravated weapons offense, endangerment of others and unlawful threats.

Police had made nary arrests, but Landberg said constabulary were actively gathering and analyzing worldly from the galore surveillance cameras successful the area.

Since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas warfare successful October 2023, respective incidents seemingly targeting Israeli interests successful Sweden person been reported.

In February, constabulary recovered a grenade successful the Israeli Embassy compound grounds, which the ambassador said was an attempted attack.

In May, gunshots were fired extracurricular the Israeli Embassy, which prompted Sweden to boost information astir Israeli interests and Jewish assemblage institutions.