At 17.20, police received an alert about a suspicious dangerous object outside the entrance to a hotel on Kaptensgatan in central Malmö. After an initial assessment at the site, it was not possible to rule out that the object was dangerous.

Hotel guests accommodated

The hotel guests were then not allowed to leave the hotel.

- The hotel guests are accommodated, it is not allowed to leave the hotel while we work. We have made the assessment that they are safer indoors, Rickard Lundqvist told TT.

The police blocked off Kaptensgatan and Kaptensbron. Drottninggatan was also blocked off from the intersection to Amiralsgatan.

The bomb guard in place

The police's national bomb protection was stated on the police's website to be in place shortly after 7 pm and shortly thereafter it was found that the object, a thermos, was harmless.

After that, the police were barred.

Earlier on Saturday another suspicious dangerous object was found in Kungsparken and parts of the park were blocked off.