STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- A government employee was tipped off in advance of a suicide bomb attack in Stockholm, but didn't notify authorities, Swedish officials said.
The only person to die in the Dec. 11 attacks was the bomber, Iraqi-born Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, the Swedish news agency TT reported.
But the day after the attacks, TT reported an armed forces employee sent a message to an acquaintance warning him to avoid Stockholm's primary pedestrian shopping street. The report did not say how the information was acquired.
"If you can, avoid Drottninggatan today. A lot could happen there ... just so you know," TT quoted the message as saying.
The newspaper Expressen reported Sapo, Sweden's security agency, said it believed the warning came from an employee at another Swedish agency.
Swedish officials said they never received a warning and Sapo was continuing its investigation into the allegations and the bombings.
Wilhelm Agrell, a Lund University professor and intelligence expert, interprets Expressen's report as a tentative confirmation of the initial reports someone knew of the bombing in advance.
"It indicates that there has been some sort of verification of the original information that came from TT," Agrell said. "It's a clarification of where the warning may have come from."
