It was on Saturday night, as the alarm came in about an explosion in an apartment in Hestra in Gislaved municipality. A man who lives at the address was taken to hospital and his condition was described as critical. Now the state police that the man has died of his injuries.

” He has been killed. The relatives are informed, ” says Erik Terneborn, presskommunikatör at polisregion the East.

itself have caused the explosion. There are no other suspects in the case previously classied as allmänfarlig destruction. A technical survey of the site has been carried out.

A person who were in the vicinity of the explosion were injured also. He must have fallen down from a balcony after trying to get over to the affected apartment.