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Attendant stabbed on Copenhagen-bound train

A female train attendant was seriously injured when a passenger attacked her with a knife en route to Copenhagen. A 29-year-old man was arrested by guards at the site.

Attendant stabbed on Copenhagen-bound train
The incident occurred on the Stockholm-Copenhagen line. Photo: SJ
A violent knife attack occurred on Saturday night on a Swedish train travelling from Stockholm to Copenhagen on Saturday night. The police were alerted to the suspected assault shortly before 6pm.
 
"The man produced a knife as he was being ejected from the train at Lund station due to his unruly behaviour. Aside from the injured woman, a further member of the crew was treated for shock. Both have been taken to hospital for treatment," according to Ronny Hörstrand at Swedish train operator SJ's press office.
 
The stabbed woman is being cared for at Skåne University Hospital in Lund.
 
"A woman in her thirties was admitted to the emergency room in Lund. Her situation is stable," said Anna Möller at Region Skåne's press office.
 
The 29-year-old suspect is now set to be interrogated by the police. He was initially suspected of assault, but the case has since been reclassified as attempted murder.
 
The train was held at the station by police following the incident.
 
"We need to know who had seen what, what they had seen and to collect their testimony," said Linda Pleym at Skåne police.
 
Police confirmed that further interviews would be conducted on Sunday.

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NORWAY

Norway to send 200,000 AstraZeneca doses to Sweden and Iceland

Norway, which has suspended the use of AstraZeneca's Covid vaccine until further notice, will send 216,000 doses to Sweden and Iceland at their request, the Norwegian health ministry said Thursday.

Norway to send 200,000 AstraZeneca doses to Sweden and Iceland
Empty vials of the AstraZeneca vaccine. (Photo by GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP)

“I’m happy that the vaccines we have in stock can be put to use even if the AstraZeneca vaccine has been paused in Norway,” Health Minister Bent Høie said in a statement.

The 216,000 doses, which are currently stored in Norwegian fridges, have to be used before their expiry dates in June and July.

Sweden will receive 200,000 shots and Iceland 16,000 under the expectation they will return the favour at some point. 

“If we do resume the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine, we will get the doses back as soon as we ask,” Høie said.

Like neighbouring Denmark, Norway suspended the use of the AstraZeneca jab on March 11 in order to examine rare but potentially severe side effects, including blood clots.

Among the 134,000 AstraZeneca shots administered in Norway before the suspension, five cases of severe thrombosis, including three fatal ones, had been registered among relatively young people in otherwise good health. One other person died of a brain haemorrhage.

On April 15, Norway’s government ignored a recommendation from the Institute of Public Health to drop the AstraZeneca jab for good, saying it wanted more time to decide.

READ MORE: Norway delays final decision on withdrawal of AstraZeneca vaccine 

The government has therefore set up a committee of Norwegian and international experts tasked with studying all of the risks linked to the AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson vaccines, which is also suspected of causing blood clots.

Both are both based on adenovirus vector technology. Denmark is the only European country to have dropped the AstraZeneca
vaccine from its vaccination campaign, and said on Tuesday it would “lend” 55,000 doses to the neighbouring German state of Schleswig-Holstein.

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