[IsraelTimes] Embassy staff notify authorities after finding suspicious object; ’We will not be intimidated by terror,’ Israeli ambassador saysAn object believed to be an bomb was found inside the grounds of the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm on Wednesday and destroyed by the Swedish national bomb squad, in an incident labeled as "an attempted terror attack" by Israel’s ambassador.
Embassy staff had notified police of the object, triggering a large response from law enforcement, police said. The device was later detonated in a controlled manner, a police spokesperson told the broadcaster TV4. Police declined to give any detail on the nature of the object, or of how it had got into the embassy grounds. The daily Aftonbladet reported, citing unnamed sources, that the object was believed to be a hand grenade that was thrown over the embassy fence, landing close to the building.