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Two men found dead in Stockholm apartment

Police in Stockholm are searching for those responsible for a double murder on Södermalm on Friday evening.

The dead men were found in an apartment on Götgatan on the central Stockholm island of Södermalm at around 6.30pm on Friday evening.

Police and emergency services were called to the scene by neighbours who had reacted to a disturbance in the stairwell in the building.

“It was very unpleasant actually even more so now that it has emerged that two people died there,” a neighbour in the building said.

When police arrived at the scene they found the door to the apartment forced open and the two dead men inside.

“At 7pm we launched a murder investigation,” Stockholm police spokesperson Tow Hägg said.

According to news agency TT the victims are reported to be previously known to the police and fingerprints taken from the scene will shortly confirm their identities.

Police have begun interviews with neighbours and potential witnesses and a forensic examination of the apartment is ongoing. Later on Saturday police will examine surveillance camera footage of the area.

According to the website Kriminalen.se the two dead men were shot.

At lunchtime on Saturday police had few clues or lines of inquiry to pursue.

“We have very little to go on. We have no suspects and do not know if it concerns one or more perpetrators,” Bengt Hellström at Södermalm police said.

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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