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According to local media, Swedish authorities are at alert over terrorist threats by ISIS which reports say is planning to strike in the countries capital, Stockholm.

Following information by Iranian authorities which revealed that about seven or eight militants from the so-called Islamic State group had traveled to the Scandinavian country, Swedish intelligence service Sapo is investigating the possible terror threat.

A Sapo spokesman would not confirm the nature of the information received.

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But he told Swedish Radio the information could not be “dismissed”.

The national terror threat level is unchanged at three, or “elevated”, on a five-point scale, the Sapo spokeman said.

Though Sapo has cautioned that it receives this type of information “quite often”, national agencies and police are said to be on stand-by.

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