Sweden reports highest number of monthly fatal shootings since records began
Eleven die in September as country rocked by wave of violence, much of it suspected to be linked to a split in the Foxtrot gang
September has become the worst month for shooting deaths in Sweden since records began in 2016, after two people died in separate shootings on Wednesday night, bringing the monthly total to 11.
Another person died on Thursday morning after a bomb blast.
The country has been rocked by a deadly wave of shootings and explosions in recent weeks – many suspected to be linked to a split within the Foxtrot gang.
In the first of the shootings on Wednesday, an 18-year-old man was killed in the early evening at a busy sports ground in the south-west Stockholm suburb of Mälarhöjden, where children and young people were training. At about midnight a second man was shot dead in Jordbro, just south of Stockholm.
A 25-year-old woman then died in hospital from injuries sustained when a bomb went off in Storvreta, outside Uppsala, a university city north of the capital, on Thursday. The blast, which damaged five houses, is being treated by the police as a murder. Swedish media said the woman who died was probably not the target.(continua)
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