Swedish police seize half ton of explosives

Police seized half a ton of explosives from four suspects in southern Sweden this week, local media reported on Tuesday.

Police during raids this week uncovered a total of 550 kg of dynamite and led to two men being detained on suspicion of breaking Swedish laws on the possession of explosive goods, local newspaper Hallands Nyheter reported.

"To give you an idea, I can say that a military hand granade contains about 20 grams," Ingemar Malmstrom at the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency told the paper.

The explosives had been uncovered during searches of several cars and a property belonging to a 41-year-old man.

A 30-year-old man near that property was also arrested.

He was sentenced to six months in prison last year for having attacked his neighbor with an axe, daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter reported. A raid of his house at that time uncovered portraits of Adolf Hitler and Nazi flags.

Police arrested two other men in connection with the raids, one of whom is a local politician with the anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats. Both were later released after police failed to produce enough evidence to keep them in custody. Endit