Blast in hotel

Police detained a man and sealed off central parts of the Danish capital after a minor explosion in a Copenhagen hotel, a police spokesman said. The man, of foreign origin, had slight injuries on his face and arms. He was arrested in a park near the...

Police detained a man and sealed off central parts of the Danish capital after a minor explosion in a Copenhagen hotel, a police spokesman said.

The man, of foreign origin, had slight injuries on his face and arms. He was arrested in a park near the site of the blast, spokesman Henrik Moeller Jacobsen said. The cause of the explosion was unclear.

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