Danish blast linked to biker gangs

Police say the attack was planned and targetted

A man with links to Denmark's notorious biker gangs has been killed in a car bomb blast outside a hospital near the capital Copenhagen.

The explosion happened at 0917 (0717 GMT) in a car park in the suburb of Glostrup, about 15 kilometres (nine miles) west of the capital.

Police said the dead man was Mickey Borgfjord Larsen, 32, a well known former member of the Bandidos motorcycle gang who was on leave from prison to get treatment at the hospital.

There is nothing to indicate that this is the start of another biker gang war Danish police

Feuds between gangs such as the Bandidos and the Hell's Angels have a bloody history, with at least 12 people killed and 70 injured across Scandinavia in the late 1990s.

Danish radio said police were treating the latest incident as murder.

"We are working on the basis that someone planted a bomb in the car with the intention of hitting a specific person," said Detective Inspector Steen Skovgaard.

"The person involved has died."

Mr Skovgaard said Larsen had a long criminal record and was serving an eight-year sentence since 2000 for attempted murder.

Police believe the bomb was a settling of accounts and not a resumption of the biker gang war.

"We knew he had a lot of enemies and that people were out to get him, and that he was in bad stead, that is, that he was prey, according to our information," Mr Skovgaard said.

"He was threatened, but we had no recent indication that people wanted to get rid of him, which is why he was not accompanied by police officers during his furlough," he said.