‘People are scared’: Sweden’s freedom of information laws lead to wave of deadly bombings

Soha Saad , 24 , dozed off on the sofa as she stayed up late studying in September .

An explosion ripped through their home, removing the windows and walls, and ending Soha 's life.

She is not thought to have been the intended target of September ’s bomb attack reports at the time said it could have been a neighbour related to a gang member but was an innocent victim with no connections to gang violence.

Sweden has been caught in the grip of escalating gang conflict involving shootings and explosions.

After last year’s wave of shootings and explosions Karp saw a “big increase’ in people who are related to criminals requesting to have their details protected to protect them from potential attack.

The government instructed a special investigator to review constitutional protection of online personal data directories.

But a lawyer at the Swedish Homeowners Association , which represents 230,000 households, said removing these details from the internet would significantly reduce targeted explosions.