COPENHAGEN: Police in Denmark and Sweden said on Wednesday (Oct 2) they were probing attacks around Israeli embassies in their capitals which took place as Middle East tensions spiral.
In Denmark, police said three people had been arrested after twin blasts were reported in the “immediate proximity” of the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen in the early hours of Wednesday.
“Two men were arrested on a train at Copenhagen Central Station. In addition, earlier in the day we arrested a man elsewhere in Copenhagen,” police said in a post on the X social media platform.
Swedish police confirmed that the Israeli embassy in Stockholm had been targeted in a shooting on Tuesday just before 6pm.
No injuries were reported in either incident.
“It’s too early to say if there is a link” between the blasts and the Israeli embassy, Danish police spokesman Jakob Hansen said of the Copenhagen incidents.
By mid-morning, the area in Copenhagen was cordoned off and police were working at the scene, an AFP correspondent observed.
Denmark’s intelligence service, PET, said it was monitoring events “closely” and assisting the police investigation.
“We are also in dialogue with the Israeli embassy about security, and are constantly assessing the scale of the security measures already implemented in relation to a number of Jewish locations,” PET said in a statement to AFP.
Writing on X, Israel’s ambassador to Denmark David Akov said he was “shocked by the appalling incident near the embassy a few hours ago.”
Source: CNA
