TURKEY, STOCKHOLM: Police said, an explosion damaged a Turkish cultural centre in a Stockholm suburb on Wednesday night, highlighting growing tensions with the local Kurdish community. Police said no one had been injured in the blast, which took place around 09:30 pm (2030 GMT) in the southwestern Fittja neighbourhood, where a man was shot four days ago at a pro-Kurdish rally.

The explosion came the same day that 28 people were killed in a bomb attack in the capital of Turkey, which has been targeted by Islamist and Kurdish groups since it started fighting them in neighbouring Syria. Ankara has been waging an all-out assault on Kurdish groups it says are allied to outlawed domestic separatists, including shelling their positions in the north of its war-torn neighbour.