Swedish police: No indication suicide bomber had accomplice

Feb 10, 2011, 14:55 GMT

Stockholm - Swedish police said Thursday there was no evidence to suggest that the man who carried out a suicide bombing in Stockholm in December had accomplices.

Investigators were however not ruling out the possibility in the ongoing probe.

Taimour Abdulwahab Al-Abday, a 28-year-old of Middle Eastern descent, was the only fatality in the December 11 attack near a busy shopping district in central Stockholm. Two bystanders were injured.

Police have received nearly 1,000 leads and conducted around 700 interviews, security police spokeswoman Katarina Sevcik told the German Press Agency dpa.

Sevcik declined to comment on whether interviews were conducted outside of the country.

In addition, hundreds of items are being analysed by the National Laboratory of Forensic Science.

Minutes before the attack - the first suicide bombing in the Scandinavian country - Al-Abday sent an email to police, the Swedish news agency TT and his wife.

The email contained statements in several languages in which he condemned Sweden's involvement in Afghanistan and the Swedish artist who drew a caricature of the Muslim prophet Mohammed.

The bomber, his wife and their three children had been living in Luton, near London, in recent years.

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