Swedish police are investigating a suspected sabotage incident on a water pump on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea. Police told the BBC that the local government’s water…
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Sweden: Authorities investigate suspected sabotage of undersea telecoms cable
Swedish police have been investigating the suspected sabotage of an undersea telecoms cable in the Baltic Sea, connecting Germany and Finland. A series of undersea cables and gas pipelines have…
Sweden: Woman convicted of genocide for IS crimes against Yazidis
A Swedish woman has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for committing genocide and war crimes against the Yazidi people after she joined jihadist group Islamic State (IS) in…
Sweden: Government plans tighter gun laws after deadly school shooting
Sweden’s government has announced plans to tighten gun laws in the wake of the worst mass shooting the country’s history. Seven women and four men between 28 and 68 died…
Sweden: School shooting victims were seven women and three men
The victims of Sweden’s worst mass shooting were seven women and three men aged between 28 and 68, police said on Friday after completing the identification process. They were killed…
Sweden: Syrians and Bosnian among victims of gunman’s attack on school
Syrians and a Bosnian were among the 10 victims of a gunman who carried out the worst shooting in Swedish history, at a school in Orebro on Tuesday. It was…
Sweden: Worst mass shooting leaves immigrant community on edge
In the middle of a grand, high-ceilinged church in Orebro, Sweden, Jacob Kasselia, a Syrian orthodox priest, looked up towards the stained glass windows above him, then back down at…
Sweden: Authorities search for answers after country’s deadliest shooting
aIsmail Moradi, 16, would normally be carrying his textbooks into school. But on Wednesday he was clutching a bunch of red flowers to lay in tribute to those murdered in…
Police say around 10 people killed in Sweden school campus shooting
Police say around 10 people have been killed in a shooting at an education centre in central Sweden, including the suspected gunman. Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson described Tuesday’s attack at…
Sweden: Man who burned Quran ‘shot dead
A man who sparked violent protests after burning the Quran has been shot dead in Sweden. Salwan Momika was killed in an apartment in Södertälje, Stockholm, on Wednesday evening, prosecutors…