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Swedish police shoot dead suspected killer

Police in Eskilstuna in eastern Sweden on Tuesday morning shot dead a man suspected of killing his mother with a knife.

Neighbours had alerted the police about a violent brawl in an apartment where a woman in her 50s lived. When police arrived at the address just before 1am on Tuesday night, they encountered a 26-year-old man, who held a knife in his hand, and they found the stabbed dead woman.

“We suspect that he had murdered his mother,” said Eskilstuna police press officer Fred Wallén.

The man was ordered by police to drop the knife but he refused to comply. When police fired a warning shot he was hit.

The 26-year-old was rushed to hospital in Eskilstuna in a very serious condition and it is unclear when exactly he died, Wallén said, explaining that it has not been ruled out that he was already dead when the ambulance arrived, or that he died on the way to the hospital.

The detailed circumstances of the knife attack and the shooting remained unclear early on Tuesday morning.

“Everything happened so fast,” said Wallén.

Wallén added furthermore that the investigation into what happened has been delayed because the only two people involved are dead.

“Witnesses are to be interviewed and a forensic examination of the scene has to be completed.”

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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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