Hand Grenades Increasingly Used in Crimes This Year

So far this year, the police have handled around 40 cases involving hand grenades. It is as many as during the entire previous year, when the police also saw an increased use, reports SR Ekot.

Hand grenades seem to be "particularly popular" among criminal networks right now, according to Malin Nygren, who is head of the police's national bomb data center.

It is noticeable both in the availability, what is actually used in these different explosions or attacks on homes or individuals, but also in what we seize, she says to the radio.

The increased use is believed to be due to it becoming harder to get hold of explosives from, for example, construction sites.