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Police suspect double murder in Stockholm

Two people were found dead in an apartment in Tullinge, in south Stockholm, on Wednesday, in what police are considering to be a suspicious death.

Police suspect double murder in Stockholm

”We received a call about a brawl in a flat just before 8.44am. The patrol which was despatched found two deceased people,” said police press spokesman Sven-Erik Olsson to news agency TT.

Police have confirmed that the two victims had been subjected to physical violence.

When officers arrived at the apartment there were no other people there. A preliminary investigation into the incident has been launched, classified by the police as murder or alternatively manslaughter.

”We don’t actually know what has happened, if more are involved or if something has happened between the two people in the flat. But we are working from the hypothesis that it is a criminal act,” said Ulf Lindgren of the county police to Aftonbladet.

Police are currently carrying out a forensic investigation and are questioning people in neighbouring apartments.

Police were unwilling to divulge any particulars about the two victims at the early stage in the investigation.

”All I can say is that they were not previously known to us,” Lindgren told the paper.

Later in the afternoon on Wednesday, police confirmed that the two victims were a man and a woman in their mid-sixties.

Soon after they issued a warrant for the arrest of one suspect who is reportedly male and in his forties.

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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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