Police in Denmark and Sweden said they were probing explosions and gunfire around Israeli embassies in their capitals which took place amid spiraling Middle East tensions.
In Denmark, police said three Swedish nationals had been arrested after two blasts, likely from hand grenades, in the “immediate proximity” of the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen.
Swedish police said the Israeli embassy in Stockholm had been targeted in a shooting.
No injuries were reported from the incidents but both came amid heightened international fears as Iran fired missiles at Israel which has vowed to respond to the attack.
“Two explosions occurred at 3:20 am at the Israeli embassy. It is our preliminary assessment that it was due to two hand grenades,” Jens Jespersen of Copenhagen police told a press conference.
He added that three Swedes aged between 15 and 20 had been arrested.
The police officer said one suspect was arrested shortly after the incident near the crime scene, and that the other two were arrested later.
Police said earlier that two suspects were arrested on a train at Copenhagen Central Station.
“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 incidents.
Writing on X, Israel’s ambassador to Denmark David Akov said he was “shocked by the appalling incident near the embassy”.
The building is in Copenhagen’s upscale Hellerup neighborhood, home to many embassies.
The three arrests come after Denmark beefed up its border controls with neighboring Sweden, on the heels of mounting gang violence over the summer.
Danish gangs are suspected of recruiting Swedish youths for attacks.
Sweden’s intelligence agency Sapo in May accused Iran of recruiting Swedish gang members as proxies to commit “acts of violence” against Israel, which Tehran denied.
At the time, Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter cited documents from Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad as saying that Foxtrot leader Rawa Majid and his archrival Ismail Abdo, head of the Rumba gang, had both been recruited by Iran.
