Explosion in Stockholm kills 1, injures 1

Police investigate an explosion in Stockholm, Sweden — (Image credit: Henrik Montgomery/Getty Images)

One person was killed and another injured in Stockholm, Sweden, on Sunday after one of the victims picked up an unidentified item on the ground near a metro station. One outlet reported the explosive object was a hand grenade, but authorities have not confirmed that story.

Swedish police said the situation has "nothing to do with terrorism" and "we will have to wait for the technical investigation" to understand what happened. The man who picked up the object was hospitalized with injuries that soon proved fatal, while the other victim, a woman, was less gravely harmed.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.