Suspected terrorist arrested at Sweden airport

  • 07/10/2017
Landvetter airport
Local newspaper Goteborgs-Posten said the man was a German citizen. Photo credit: Reuters

A man in his 20s has been arrested on suspicion of trying to carry explosives onto a plane in western Sweden.

The man was stopped as he tried to get onto a flight to another European Union state at Gothenburg's Landvetter Airport on Thursday morning, police spokesman Peter Adlersson said.

A regular security check flagged up signs of explosive material in his luggage which was being tested, Adlersson added.

Local newspaper Goteborgs-Posten said the man was a German citizen and, citing an unidentified source, that his luggage contained the explosive TATP.

TATP, short for triacetone triperoxide, was used in the blast that killed 22 people outside a pop concert in the English city of Manchester in May.

Reuters