On Wednesday night an explosive device was hurled at the police station in Rosengard, a troubled area of Malmo, Sweden’s third largest city.

Sweden is among the world’s safest, richest and best-run countries enjoying steady growth and rising employment, but it has been experiencing an unprecedented surge of bombings and sexual assaults.

More than 320 shootings and dozens of bombings were reported in 2017, along with more than 110 murders and 7,226 rapes — a 10% increase on 2016.

More than 36% of young Swedish women say they feel unsafe at night.