Police forensic officers are investigating the area after an explosion at the apartment block, in Biskopsgarden, Gothenburg, south of Sweden.
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Yuusuf’s father Abdiwahid Warsame told the Birmingham Mail his son had died in the grenade attack, and that he was awaiting more information from the Swedish authorities.
At least five children and several adults were inside at the time, said police.
Yuusuf Warsame, who was born and raised in Birmingham to Dutch parents, had been visiting relatives with his mother, brother and sister.
He said the two incidents could be linked.
Another family member said: “The room Yuusuf was in when the attack happened, was also occupied by our mother, sister and youngest brother”.
“It is a miracle none of them were badly injured, they only sustained minor injuries”.
The Local said individuals convicted of serious violent crimes were living in the residence and one of the men convicted of a fatal shooting at a restaurant a year ago was registered at the address.
In March 2015, armed men burst into a pub in the Biskopsgarden neighbourhood, gunning down a man known to police and an innocent bystander in a spray of bullets.
Last year, a four-year-old girl died in a vehicle explosion connected to ongoing gang wars in Sweden’s second-largest city.
Gothenburg police spokesman Thomas Fuxborg, told local media that the boy’s death is being investigated as murder.
While Sweden is generally a peaceful, safe country with low crime rates, police have had difficulty addressing violence in poorer neighbourhoods in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmo.
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Police have reportedly confirmed that a man convicted over a fatal shooting at a restaurant in the area a year ago was registered at the address.
