Police spokesman Ulf Goranzon says investigations are continuingTwo explosions in Sweden's capital Stockholm are being investigated as a "crime of terror", officials say.
A car blew up in a busy shopping area on Saturday afternoon, followed moments later by a second explosion nearby.
Witnesses said a man found dead after the second blast had been carrying an explosive device. Two people were hurt.
Swedish PM Fredrik Reinfeldt condemned the attacks as unacceptable in an open society with a functioning democracy that respects different cultures.
"Our democracy functions well," he told a press conference. "Those who feel frustration or anger have the opportunity to express it without resorting to violence."
Lone operator?Swedish security police have not yet released the dead man's name, although director of operations Anders Thornberg says they now have a clearer idea about him.
The prime minister and the security services are taking great pains to say: "Hold on a minute, let's not jump to conclusions, let's actually form those links".
But you've only got to surmise at the death of the man, through explosives that he was carrying, a short time after the explosions in the car, to assume there was a link between the two.
The bigger question is whether it was only him involved, whether he had set off the explosions in the car somehow, and then fled, either deliberately setting off the explosives on himself as a suicide bombing or accidentally setting them off.
They're also trying to work out whether there were more people involved in a conspiracy in Sweden and even more people involved in a conspiracy going outside the country.
"As far as we know it looks like he has been working for himself but we don't know, we have to make that really sure," he said.
"So we are investigating whether there could be more perpetrators. We don't know."
Swedish media have named a 28-year-old man of Iraqi origin as the suspected bomber.
Police are investigating a set of e-mails sent shortly before the blasts threatening attacks because Sweden had sent troops to Afghanistan.
Sweden has some 500 soldiers deployed in Afghanistan as part of the international military force.
Police are trying to work out whether the explosions were an isolated attack or part of a larger conspiracy, says the BBC's Stephen Evans in Stockholm.
The e-mails, with MP3 audio files in Swedish and Arabic, were sent to the Swedish security service and the TT news agency.
They called for "mujahideen" - or Islamist fighters - to rise up in Sweden and Europe, promising Swedes would "die like our brothers and sisters".
They also attacked the country for caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad drawn by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
"The mail was about one man," police spokesman Ulf Goranzon told a press conference on Sunday.
"He was not satisfied with developments in Sweden regarding [the fact] that we have military troops in other countries, that there had been protests and that there have been said bad things about the Prophet [Muhammad]."
Sweden has a reputation for openness and tolerance, but in recent years, tensions have risen, our correspondent says.
There has been resentment at immigration as the economy has stuttered, and some Muslims have grown more militant.
In September, the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats won 20 seats in parliament, taking 5.7% of the vote.
If confirmed as a suicide bombing, the attack would be the first of its kind in Sweden. However, Swedish citizens have been linked to suicide bomb plots abroad.
On Thursday, a court in Gothenburg found two Swedish citizens of Somali origin guilty of planning suicide attacks in Somalia.
The imam of Stockholm's main mosque, Sheik Hassan Mussa, said in a statement he deplored "all forms of attacks, violence fears and threats against innocent people, whatever the motive or pretext."
Twin blastsSaturday's blasts struck as people were out Christmas shopping.
- 2 May 2010: New York police defuse improvised car bomb after vehicle loaded with propane tanks, fireworks, petrol and a clock device is left parked in New York's Times Square
- 30 June 2007: Jeep loaded with propane canisters driven into the glass doors of Glasgow airport and set ablaze. Driver Kafeel Ahmed dies from severe burn injuries. Passenger Bilal Abdulla, British-born Muslim of Iraqi descent, sentenced to 32 years for conspiracy to commit murder
- 29 June 2007: Two cars containing petrol, gas cylinders and nails fail to explode in London. One device, left outside a nightclub, is defused after an ambulance crew spot smoke. The second is found after a car is towed from a nearby street where it had been parked illegally
The car exploded on the busy shopping street of Drottninggatan at 1700 (1600 GMT) and the second blast occurred 10 to 15 minutes later on a street about 300m away, police said.
The car had contained gas canisters and there were a series of minor explosions, a spokesman told the BBC.
Unconfirmed reports in Sweden's Aftonbladet newspaper said the man found dead near the site of the second blast had been carrying pipe bombs, as well as a backpack full of nails.
Eyewitnesses saw him lying on the ground with blood coming out of his stomach.
Tweeting about the blasts, Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said a terrorist attack that could have been "truly catastrophic" had failed.
In November, Sweden raised its terror alert level from low to elevated because of a "shift in activities" among Swedish-based groups thought to be plotting attacks.
A security official said the threat level had not been raised as a result of Saturday's attacks.
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