Vårby gård is a station in the
Stockholm metro in the
Vårby district of
Huddinge Municipality
Huddinge Municipality ( sv, Huddinge kommun) is a municipality in Stockholm County, east central Sweden. Its seat is located in Huddinge (), which is a part of Stockholm urban area.
The municipality is, with its approximately 110,000 inhabitant ...
. The station was opened on 1 October 1972 as part of the extension from
Vårberg
Vårberg is a suburb in the Skärholmen borough in the Söderort region of Stockholm, Sweden.
Location
Vårberg borders Skärholmen, Vårby gård, Huddinge, Estbröte, Kungshatt, and Ekerö. It has an area of 197 hectares of land and 6 ...
to
Fittja
Fittja is a part of Botkyrka Municipality and the name of the Stockholm metro station in the area. It was settled during the 1970s and consists mostly of rental apartments. As of 2008, there were 7,458 people living in Fittja; 64.7% of them were o ...
.
As part of ''Art in the Stockholm metro'' project, the station features a ''Flora'' mural, created by Rolf Bergström 1999.
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On 7 January 2018, an explosion just outside the station killed a man in his 60s and injured his wife. The man is believed to have picked up a suspected
hand grenade from the ground. There was no evidence it was related to terrorism or that the couple were targeted.
References
Red line (Stockholm metro) stations
Railway stations opened in 1972
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