Harju added the threat level would be kept as normal because there were no grounds to believe a terrorist attack was imminent in Finland.
The Finnish government is being kept informed of developments.
Foreign Minister Stubb Calls Incident "Serious"
Prime Minister Mari Kiviniemi has condemned the attack in Sweden. In a YLE interview, she reiterated, however, the view of the Security Police that Finland did not face the danger of a similar attack on the basis of current knowledge.
Finland's Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb has described the Stockholm bombing as very worrying and serious because the act was probably a terror attack. However, he said the incident was of little significance to Finland. He did not comment on the motive for the attack neither on a possible link with Afghanistan. Stubb also did not want to make any conclusions concerning a message by the perpetrator in which he claimed the west was waging war on Islam.
Stubb has expressed support to his Swedish counterpart Carl Bildt.
Bomb Blast Claims One Life
Saturday night’s blasts killed one person and wounded two. Before the explosions, the Swedish news agency TT received a threatening letter about Sweden's military presence in Afghanistan and caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad drawn several years ago by a Swedish cartoonist.
A senior Swedish security police official told a news conference on Sunday the blasts were being treated as "terror crimes" and police had established good leads.
The incident unfolded when a car burst into flames near a busy shopping street in the city centre, followed by explosions inside the car which police said were caused by gas canisters. The second explosion took place about fifteen minutes later, about 300 metres away, killing one man and wounded two people. The newspaper Aftonbladet quoted a source as saying the victim of the blast, a 28-year-old man was carrying six pipe bombs, of which only one exploded.
