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The cop shop in Malmo, Sweden, came under attack at 9.06pm local time (8.06pm GMT).

The explosion at the station in the Rosengard district of the city occured in an outside courtyard.

No officers or civilians are thought to have been injured but many vehicles have been damaged.

Sweden was last year rocked by terrorism when a lorry was driven into crowds on a busy Stockholm shopping street, killing five people.

(Image: FRITZ SCHIBLI)

"We are on track and bomb technicians are on their way," says Anna Göransson from the Police Regional Management Centre.

The bursts of the explosion were heard far away in Malmö and several residents in different areas heard the blast.

"We have several callers to the regional management center, which indicates that it seems to have occured at the police station at Rosengård. Then we are also alerted from the police station, Ms Göransson added.

Bomb technicians have been called to the scene with the police station cordoned off.

It is not known how many police officers were in the station at the time of the blast.

It is the third suspected attack on police in three weeks in Malmo.

On Boxing Day a car was damaged in an explosion, while three days later another police vehicle was blown up.

"I do not know if they have been evacuated, but the safety of staff is the first one," said Ms Göransson.

A person told Expressen that the bang was very powerful.

"It was real, really. Not like other bangs. But I do not know more than that," he said.

Nobody has been arrested so far.