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Woman held after two women found dead

One woman is being held by police in northern Sweden after two women were found dead early Saturday morning in a flat in Piteå.

Published: 26 March 2012 07:26 CEST

The two women, aged 54 and 37, were found dead around 3am on Saturday morning after an ambulance had been called to an apartment in the town’s Degeränget neighbourhood.

Ambulance workers in turn called police.

“In the apartment they found two dead women,” said investigator Per-Olov Andersson of the Norrbotten County police to news agency TT.

According to police, the women hadn’t been dead very long when officers arrived.

“The apartment is home to one of the women and we believe they were found right around the time they died,” he told the Expressen newspaper.

A 31-year-old woman who is an acquaintance of the two deceased women is being held by police on suspicion of having caused their deaths.

The ambulance was called by someone who knew the women, but police refused to confirm if the 31-year-old woman being held in the case is the same person who placed the call to emergency services.

Police have interrogated the woman, but won’t divulge how she responded to the accusations.

According to the police, all three women are known to have spent time among a group of known drug addicts in the city.

“It may be that someone took too much, and that another person is therefore suspected of having made that happen,” Andersson told Expressen.

However, police refused to comment further on the details of the cause of death pending the outcome of an autopsy.

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NORWAY

Body found in Oslo flat nine years after death

A man lay dead in his flat for nine years before being discovered in December, police in Oslo have said.

Published: 9 April 2021 11:20 CEST
Body found in Oslo flat nine years after death
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The man, who was in his sixties, had been married more than once and also had children, national broadcaster NRK reports.

His name has been kept anonymous. According to neighbours he liked to keep to himself and when they didn’t see him, they thought he had moved or been taken to assisted living.

“Based on the details we have, it is obviously a person who has chosen to have little contact with others,” Grethe Lien Metild, chief of Oslo Police District, told NRK.

His body was discovered when a caretaker for the building he was living in requested police open the apartment so he could carry out his work.

“We have thought it about a lot, my colleagues and people who have worked with this for many years. This is a special case, and it makes us ask questions about how it could happen,” Metild said.

Police believe the man died in April 2011, based on a carton of milk and a letter that were found in his apartment. An autopsy has shown he died of natural causes.

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His pension was suspended in 2018 when the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) could not get in touch with him, but his bills were still paid out of his bank account and suspended pension fund.

Arne Krokan, a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, said the man’s death would have unlikely gone unnoticed for so long if he had died 30 years ago.

“In a way, it is the price we have paid to get digital services,” he said to NRK.

Last year 27 people were found in Oslo, Asker or Bærum seven days or more after dying. The year before the number was 32 people. Of these, one was dead for almost seven months before being discovered.

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