According to police, the offender must have threatened the staff at a restaurant at the Wiesel border square in Gothenburg and asked for money.

"He didn't get anything with him and the witnesses saw that the man disappeared on a tram," says Stefan Gustafsson, police spokesperson for SVT News West.

The weapon was not fired

The weapon was not fired and no person was physically injured in the incident.

- The tram was then stopped on the Göta river bridge and the man was arrested. We also found the suspect weapon he used at the restaurant. It was an air gun.