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Police search for murdered 19-year-old

Police are looking for the body of a 19-year-old man who disappeared from a party in Norra Lundby in western Sweden last weekend.

Police are conducting their search for the body of the man, named by police on Friday as Mikael Andersson, in a large area in the vicinity of Axvall and Norra Lundby outside of Skara. Police believe that they have found the place where he was murdered but on Saturday morning had not yet found his body.

Västra Götaland police announced in a press release on Friday that they believe that Mikael Andersson has been murdered. A search of the 19-year-old’s battered car was sufficient for police to draw their conclusion.

“We have uncovered enough in the investigation to render us certain that he has been killed, but we have not yet found a body,” said Thord Haraldsson for Västra Götalands police to news agency TT.

Police also reported that four people have been arrested in connection with Andersson’s disappearance. Further arrests could be made in the case, the police said on Saturday morning.

The prosecutor has apprehended one man on suspicion of murder and two further men suspected of complicity to murder. A woman has been arrested on suspicion of harbouring a criminal.

Police have urged the public to get in touch with any information that could assist their investigation. They are particularly keen on information about a white Volvo 740, Mikael Andersson’s car, that was in the area around Norra Lundby and Axvall between May 17th-19th.

LANDSLIDE

Swedish authorities: Worker negligence behind motorway landslide

Swedish authorities said on Thursday that worker negligence at a construction site was believed to be behind a landslide that tore apart a motorway in western Sweden in September.

Swedish authorities: Worker negligence behind motorway landslide

The landslide, which struck the E6 highway in Stenungsund, 50 kilometres north of Sweden’s second-largest city Gothenburg, ripped up a petrol station car park, overturned lorries and caved in the roof of a fast food restaurant.

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Prosecutor Daniel Veivo Pettersson said on Thursday he believed “human factors” were behind the landslide as “no natural cause” had been found during the investigation.

He told a press conference the landslide had been triggered by a nearby construction site where too much excavated material had been piled up, putting excessive strain on the ground below. 

“At this stage, we consider it negligent, in this case grossly negligent, to have placed so much excavated material on the site,” Pettersson said.

Pettersson added that three people were suspected of among other things gross negligence and causing bodily harm, adding that the investigation was still ongoing.

The worst-hit area covered around 100 metres by 150 metres, but the landslide affected an area of around 700 metres by 200 metres in total, according to emergency services.

Three people were taken to hospital with minor injuries after the collapse, according to authorities.

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