Police became aware of the suspicious object when they stopped a stolen car at. 02:00 night to Thursday. Two men and a woman in the 1920s were arrested and charged with car theft.
Operations Director Anne Straumsheim Meyer of the Southeast Police District informed NRK on Thursday that the three people in the stolen car were currently suspected of stealing the car, but questioned about the homemade bomb . found in the car
Just after 7:00 pm on Thursday, police lawyer Nina Røed, in the Southeast Police District, said that only one of the three men, a man in the mid-20s, was accused of finding the bomb in the car.
– It is this person that the police can associate with the discovery currently. The man is known to the police in advance. All three are at Tønsberg Central Railroad, and all three will be sitting tomorrow, "said Røed
She can not say anything about where the car is stolen or who owns it for the purposes of The police will try to destroy the bomb on the evening of Thursday
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The headquarters is now suspected of detention. All three have been partially interrogated, and the police are now conducting a new hearing of those arrested.
– Do the three now explain around the bomb?
– I do not can not talk about it now, "said Røed.
The police prosecutor also states that the police are now working tactically and technically. Tactics with interrogation of arrested persons, and possibly other witnesses. Other information from where the car was found was also obtained. In addition, he was technically employed by both the bombing group and the policemen
The car was, after the arrest, towed by the Posten Ostlands into Larvik's rescue premises at Bommestad and placed on the premises of the company in the east of Lågen. during the search of the car in the premises, the suspect object was found
The police looked so serious about it that a homemade bomb could do a lot of damage if it had to explode. The bomb group also considered the object as dangerous and for a long time evaluated where to lead the destruction.
Finally, the pipe bomb was moved to Hedrum Pukkverk.
– It was made for security reasons. We took it here to make sure it's destroyed. He is now unscathed and does not threaten anyone, "says Geir Solberg, deputy chief of the NRK police district, in the south-east of the country.
The leader says that parts of the bomb will now be analyzed by the police as part of the subsequent investigation.
– Do you know anything about the use of this bomb?
– To not scare people, so there is nothing that says it has anything to do with terror. Something more than we do not know up to here. Now we continue with the investigation, "said Solberg