Two more arrests after sprengstoffunn Voss – Aftenposten

Two more arrests after sprengstoffunn Voss – Aftenposten

The last two men were arrested Friday night, said police officer Håvard Skattum by Voss sheriff’s office.

From before the two men and a woman has been arrested and charged in the case. The woman was released after questioning Friday. All those arrested are in their 20s.

Searches

– Police on Voss suspect that there are still old and unsafe explosives astray and are investigating further to find this, tell the police officer.

The bomb was found in connection with a search warrant at the home of one of the men after an arrest in Bergen on Thursday. A total of seven homes in walking distance from Voss town center and about 20 people were evacuated as a result of the discovery.

Homemade Bomb

– We took photos of it, drew out and set up guard . Some flats in the building were immediately evacuated, said sheriff Ivar Hellene in Voss.

– After looking at the pictures, thought bomb group in Oslo that the object was of such a nature that they would come here to watch it. They went immediately to Voss and was here at 15.45. The disarming the bomb and removed it safely, he continued.

Before the bomb group arrived, had the local police raided a new home where they found a military grenade.

Evacuees house

– They could not say whether it was sharp or practice grenade, so they requisitioned military’s bomb squad from Bergen. They came here approximately at 20. Since they were unsafe, we evacuated the houses nearby. It turned out that there was a practice grenade, said sheriff Hellene.

Finally opened crews a locked garage at one of the houses and took around ten kilograms military and civilian explosives.

– The was such a strong amount of all neighboring houses were evacuated. The explosive was defused and removed. Fifteen minutes after midnight could evacuees return home. Meanwhile they had been placed in a hotel in Voss according to the municipality’s emergency plan, explains the sheriff.

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