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Fuck!!! Swedish police release man from 'body bomb'
When you think your life is boring, be happy it's not this exciting.....
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- A Swedish bomb squad removed a device from around the waist of a man who claimed he was abducted and forced to wear a remote-controlled bomb, police said Sunday.
One man has since been arrested and police are searching for a second suspect.
Officers evacuated buildings and blocked off streets in the northern Stockholm suburb of Tensta after the man claimed he was wearing a bomb belt. The bomb squad removed the device after six hours, police officer Diana Sundin told The Associated Press.
Sundin, who spoke over the telephone from the scene, said the device was taken to be detonated in a safe area. She could not confirm whether it was a genuine bomb.
The man, in his late 20s, was taken to hospital and would be questioned by police, she added.
Police had arrived at the scene before noon Sunday, after members of the public reported seeing the man, police spokesman Stefan Larsson said.
Residents evacuated
About 30 officers surrounded the man and police cleared a 400-meter (440-yard) radius around him. Some 100 residents were evacuated from nearby buildings.
Sundin, who briefly approached and talked to the man herself, said he told police he had managed to escape from an apartment building after being held captive there for three days.
He wore a black box fastened around the waist, with wires sticking out, she said, adding that he looked frightened and was sweating profusely.
"It looked real to me," Sundin said.
A subsequent police search of an apartment there uncovered material which police would investigate further, she said.
Sundin said the man was born in 1977 in Norway but must have been living in Sweden for a while because he was speaking Swedish. Police were searching for the kidnappers, she said.
Swedish broadcaster channel TV 4 showed live footage of the man, seated on the ground by a parking lot and leaning against a pole, dressed in a green shirt and gray pants. The video showed police bringing him a glass of water
"He behaved in a weird way and just sat there crying," witness Jasser Mohammed Ali, who works at a nearby shop, earlier told Swedish news agency TT.
Later Sunday, police said they searched several apartment buildings across Stockholm and arrested one man suspected of "endangering public safety," and that they were still pursuing a second suspect in the case.
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