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Woman found dead in south Stockholm

A woman in her thirties was found dead near a waste container in Kungens Kurva, in south Stockholm, early on Thursday morning in what police have determined was an accident.

Two men who were initially arrested on suspicion of murder have since been released.

“What we’ve discovered is that the deceased woman and the two men had arrived in the area by car and tried to break the lock on a waste container. When they managed to open the container, the door exerted such force that the woman was crushed to death against a container which was nearby,” police spokesperson Hesam Akbari told the TT news agency.

The police received a call just before 2am on Thursday and when officers arrived at the south Stockholm location, they found a woman dead near a dumpster close to an animal hospital.

Police soon arrested two men found nearby. One of them is born in 1974 and the other in 1962, according to officers.

The dead woman was reportedly in her thirties but police are not yet 100 percent certain about her identity, according to the Dagens Nyheter (DN) newspaper.

While the two men who were arrested are no longer suspected of murder, the are still under suspicion for theft.

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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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