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17-year-old girl raped at music festival

Police are investigating the suspected rape of a teenage girl at a camping area at the Siesta music festival in southern Sweden.

17-year-old girl raped at music festival

The victim, a 17-year-old girl, reported the rape to the police herself on Friday morning. According to her own account, the incident occurred early Friday morning, between 4am and 4.20am, on a camping spot at the festival’s main area.

The Siesta festival is a music festival held in Hässleholm, in southern Sweden.

The 17-year-old has given the police a description of her attacker, but no suspect has yet been arrested.

“We have some people who may have been in the area. We held interrogations yesterday, and will be continuing today,” Magnus Johansson of the north-eastern Skåne police force told news agency TT.

As well as interviewing possible witnesses, police forensic specialists spent Friday investigating the camping spot where the crime was reported to have occurred.

The police are unwilling to reveal any further details on Friday’s events, referring to the fact that no suspect has been arrested, and to the sensitive nature of the case.

“Right now I don’t want to give any information about what has happened or how it might have happened,” duty officer Anders Swenson of Kristianstad’s police force told local newspaper Norra Skåne.

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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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