Man 'shoots himself dead' in Swedish Prime Minister's home

Stockholm: A man was found dead inside Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt's central Stockholm home on Friday, police said, after media reports that he was a security guard who had killed himself.

A spokesman for the prime minister, Markus Friberg, said Reinfeldt was at work at the time, and that he and his family were doing well.

"We have a deceased man inside" the home of the prime minister, a spokeswoman for the Stockholm police said, declining to give further details as the man's family hadn't been informed.

A spokeswoman for the Swedish Security Service, which is responsible for Reinfeldt's personal security, said the dead man was not employed by the agency.

Swedish media described the man as a security guard at the prime minister's residence.

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The Aftonbladet tabloid newspaper said Reinfeldt was in the paper's editorial office when he was informed of the incident.

The police said there were no signs that a crime had been committed.

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"There is nothing to suggest a crime has been committed, but we are collecting information with the help of our technicians," Towe Haegg, a spokeswoman for the Stockholm police, told the paper.