Swedish businesses are being bombed
Young teens are making a quick buck off a big bang
Odakra, a sleepy village in southern Sweden, offers little excitement on a typical weeknight. But at 3am on January 28th residents awoke to a bang: an improvised explosive device had detonated. An hour later another bomb went off in Karrtorp, a Stockholm suburb. Within a day four more had rocked the capital.
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This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Blowing up the store”
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