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An explosion "destroyed" a Turkish cultural building in a Stockholm suburb, Swedish media reported.

A powerful blast took place at 21:35 local time at the in Botkyrka Turkish cultural association premises in the Fittja district of the city.

The building has been destroyed, according to the head of the centre.

He added the office had closed unusually early this evening, at 7pm, and many members had left before the explosion.

Chairman Mehmet Kayhan told DN: "It must be a bomb, the whole office and the premises are destroyed.

"We had closed early today as the members had gone at seven o'clock."

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He added he wasn't sure if the building had been completely empty when the blast went off.

Sven-Erik Olsson, from Stockholm Police, said: "When we reached the smoke from the room and the windows were shattered."

Stockholm's bomb squad are at the scene and police are investigating the incident.

A police spokesman said: "No one was inside, no one was injured.

"It had been locked since earlier in the evening."

No one has been arrested and there are currently no suspects, he added.

Twenty-eight people were killed and dozens wounded in Turkey's capital Ankara earlier on Wednesday when a car laden with explosives detonated next to military buses near the armed forces' headquarters, parliament and other government buildings.

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