Sweden to introduce cellphone air raid alert system
Stockholm: Sweden will introduce a cellphone alert system this year to warn the population of air raids in wartime, inspired by a similar system in Ukraine, the agency responsible said Friday.
Sweden currently has an outdoor alarm system consisting of around 4,500 horns on rooftops and other tall buildings throughout the country.
“Based on the experiences we’ve seen in Ukraine, we’ve seen that the enemy, in this case Russia, would shoot down our outdoor warning system,” Henrik Larsson, head of the population protection department at the Swedish Civil Defence and Resilience Agency, told AFP.
