Three held after anti-terror raids in Stockholm and northern Sweden

From the Swedish edition of The Local

Police and Sweden’s security police Säpo carried out joint raids on several locations in northern Sweden and the Stockholm region early on Monday morning, the authorities said in a press statement.

Three suspects were arrested, and several other people were brought in for questioning.

The arrests were made in the suburb of Akalla north of Stockholm.Säpo said they had been monitoring the suspects as part of their counter-terrorism work.

Citing unnamed sources, TT reported that all three suspects were from Uzbekistan. It also reported that at least one had been in contact with Rakhmat Akilov, who is currently on trial for the April 2017 Stockholm terror attack. . . The prosecutor and Säpo both declined to reveal any further information.