Suspect held over Stockholm bombing

A man has been arrested in connection with the Stockholm suicide bombing, police said today.

The 30-year-old was detained in Glasgow this morning in connection with bombing in Sweden in December last year.

The foreign national was arrested under the Terrorism Act shortly after 6am in the Whiteinch area of the city.

It is alleged the man was involved in aiding terrorists in Sweden.

Two people were wounded in central Stockholm in what appeared to be the first suicide bombing in Sweden’s history.

Iraqi-born student Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, 28, who studied at the University of Bedfordshire and who lived in Luton, killed himself and injured the two others in the Swedish capital’s shopping district on December 11 2010.

Detectives in Britain and Sweden have been investigating whether Abdulwahab was supported by others or acted as a lone attacker.

Officials said at the time the bombing appeared “well-planned” and worked on the assumption that he was helped by others.