The knife used by an unknown man to stab Sweden's Foreign Minister Anna Lindh to death will probably be sent to a forensic lab in Britain for analysis, Swedish TT news agency reported Sunday.

Police have established that the knife found at the downtown Stockholm department store where Lindh was attacked Wednesday is the murder weapon, but have found no fingerprints on it.

The knife, a standard model used by thousands of Swedes for outdoor and handicraft purposes, has a steel blade and red plastic handle and retails for less than $10.

Swedish police hope scientists at The Forensic Science Center (FSS) in Birmingham, which has more advanced equipment than the best crime labs in Sweden, will find traces of the assailant's genetic code, or DNA, on the knife, TT said.

"They have the very latest when it comes to DNA technology and can perform analyzes on minimal cell samples. We don't have that technology yet," Olof Egerstedt, head of Sweden's central forensic lab SKL, told TT.

No one at police headquarters in Stockholm was immediately available for comment. The switchboard was jammed for hours after police published unedited pictures of the main suspect.

Earlier Sunday, police said they had not identified the man in the pictures taken from footage filmed by a surveillance camera in the department store just minutes before the attack.

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