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CRIME

‘Dad killed kids’ in Good Friday crash

Police believe that a car crash in southern Sweden in which two young boys died on Good Friday may have been planned by their 37-year-old father, who also died in the frontal collision with a local bus.

Prosecutor Anna Håkansson in Malmö launched a formal murder investigation on Wednesday after police found a suicide note in the man’s home.

“The background here seems to be relationship-based,” police investigator Thomas Håkansson told newspaper Sydsvenskan.

Police are working on the hypothesis that the father intentionally swerved over to the wrong side of the road in his Saab in order to meet an oncoming yellow Skånetrafiken bus head on.

The 37-year-old and his two sons, 8 and 4, all lost their lives in the crash outside Staffanstorp, 14-kilometres east of Malmö.

As the murder suspect is dead, the ongoing investigation will not lead to a criminal indictment. If she is to receive compensation for the deaths of her two sons, the boys’ mother will have to file a civil suit against the dead man’s estate.

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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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