Police quiz suspected killer of Lindh

SWEDISH police interrogated and took DNA samples from the suspected killer of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh yesterday, following his capture in a Stockholm suburb, authorities said.

The suspect a Swedish man described by a television station as a 35-year-old drifter was detained on Tuesday night near a restaurant in Solna, police spokeswoman Stina Wessling said. He was not identified further.

"The man was informed of our suspicions of him being guilty of the murder and answered a few questions. He was also examined by medical examiners and forensic laboratory technicians," said Wessling.