Rescue services

An explosion has occurred in an apartment building in Helsinki’s Meri-Rastila, the Helsinki police command center tells Iltalehte.

Two people are hospitalized. There is currently no information on the severity of their injuries.

The cause of the explosion is not yet known to the police. According to the command center, police explosives experts will examine the apartment in the morning and try to ensure the safety of the space so that the actual technical investigation can be started.

– We go through room by room and find out if there is still material there that could explode.

At nine in the morning, the police carried a robot into the building. Rosa Bröijer

According to the police, no arrests have been made at the scene, at least so far, and it is not yet clear whether the incident is related to a crime.

Iltalehti’s on-site photographer Roosa Bröijer the police have cordoned off the area. At nine o’clock, a robot was carried into the building.

According to Bröijer’s observations, it seems that people are trying to get their cars from the parking lot in front of the house, but the police have not agreed to this.

According to Bröijer, the police have done more isolation measures in the area since eight o’clock.

The emergency center received several reports in the morning regarding the explosion.

According to an eyewitness interviewed by Iltalehti, there are several police officers at the scene and the police have cordoned off the area. He says that he didn’t hear the explosion himself.

The police will provide more information as the investigation progresses.