On 12 June 2015, four people, including a 4-year-old girl, were killed in a car bombing in Gothenburg, Sweden.
[3][4] On Friday evening, 12 June around 17:00 CEST, a car exploded near a roundabout in Torslanda, Gothenburg.
[1][5] Roads were thereafter closed off, and several witnesses who were in a state of shock were taken care of in the local church in Amhult.
[1] The car bombing took place amid an increase of homicides in Sweden, which was described as being "in an extreme situation" compared to other Nordic countries.
[7][8] The attack was seen in the context of retaliatory revenge killings in Gothenburg in recent years.