Swedish suicide bomber ‘planned Christmas carnage’

A SUICIDE bomber who blew himself up in Stockholm at the weekend was carrying a cocktail of explosives and probably meant to wreak carnage among Christmas shoppers, investigators said.

As British police searched the father-of-three’s home in Luton, Sweden’s chief prosecutor confirmed investigators believed the bomber was a Swedish citizen who was living in Britain, and was bent on killing “as many people as possible”.

After an Islamist group said Taymour Abdelwahab Al-Abdaly targeted Sweden over its military presence in Afghanistan, prosecution chief Tomas Lindstrand warned the bomber would likely have had accomplices.