U.k. study LONDON - British authorities. Connections of the man believed to behind a terror attack in Stockholm at the weekend and looking for a house where you believe that he had lived.
Bombs explode in Stockholm with at least one person dead feared Video courtesy of Reuters.A house in Luton, about 30 miles north of London, said the London Metropolitan Police for late Sunday evening under the terrorism Act 2000. Police believe the man, believed, to suicide bombers behind the attacks - the Swedish authorities identified as likely to Taimour Abdulwahab - up only in the last year or two, according to a person familiar with the probe in the u.k. residence had lived.
No arrests in the United Kingdom have been made and no dangerous materials were found, but the u.k. police investigation continues.
Swedish authorities say as a terrorist attack two explosions close to Christmas shopper on Stockholm streets Saturday afternoon, the suspected bomber killed and injured two others treat are.
The explosion would potentially have a bigger impact, but authorities believe it may have ignited before the bomber reaches its destination.
"It seems something happens and an error was made by him, which meant that some went the explosives he had and it killed" Swedish prosecutor Tomas Lindstrand said.
The blasts occurred minutes apart at 5: 00 pm local time in nearby Drottninggatan, a busy pedestrian street in the Centre of Stockholm with Christmas shopper packed. People scattered in panic as a white Audi station wagon with gas canister exploded and burst into flames. Minutes later died a man in his late twenties what Swedish media told an apparent suicide bombing was a few hundred meters away from the car. A man on the ground that appear with apparently from his stomach bleeding, and mMedia said witnesses reports come a bag with nails said blood lay on the ground beside him set. Two people were in the hospital with minor injuries. Swedish authorities have said that the investigation so far mostly the man killed turned has, however, that there could be others.
Mr Lindstrand, the man behind the attacks said Mr Abdulwahab, was almost certainly an Iraqi-born Swede due, 29 years old, to make the day after the explosion on Sunday.
"The man who blew himself 98% is identified, but we have still no formal identification," Mr Lindstrand told reporters in Stockholm Monday. "He was completely unknown to the security service and there was nothing on it from before."
Authorities believe according to the person familiar with the probe Mr Abdulwahab at least several years in the UK, including University, spent. The University of Bedfordshire in Luton confirmed that a Swedish national with the same name registered in 2001 and Castle with a bachelor's degree in Sport 2004 had therapy.
A woman believed Mr Abdulwahab have to connect to currently lives at the address in Luton searched police by u.k. together with children, depending on the person, familiar with the probe. Police believe Mr Abdulwahab is the father of two children, but it could be not immediately determined if the wife or children at with Mr Abdulwahab were related.
Mr Lindstrand that Swedish prosecutor told reporters in Stockholm it was probably, the bomber was alone when he conducted from the attack, but probably help in preparation, had it.
"He wore a bomb belt, he had a backpack with a bomb and he was wearing something in his hand, which can be compared with a pressure cooker," said Mr Lindstrand.
Where was the man is unknown, but the public prosecutor's Office said it seemed fair to say he wanted "where it as many people as possible, perhaps the central station, perhaps a department store" when his equipment a malfunction.
A warning message to the Swedish security service SAPO and news agency TT was sent just before the attacks. The message Mr Lindstrand said of the dead man's phone came, contain no reference to the attack of the location.
SAPO and police are working continue around the clock said Mr Lindstrand.
"The investigation is underway and witness interviews are ongoing and technical investigations are the bomb material is carried out and of course an autopsy is done," said Mr Lindstrand. "Pictures of surveillance cameras and so on, looking so it's a pretty traditional investigation process."
Write toCassell Bryan-low at cassell.bryan-low@wsj.com
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