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Official death toll over 4,000
At least 4,372 deaths have been confirmed following the earthquake in Turkey.
Turkey’s official death toll had by early Tuesday morning risen to 2,921 and another 15,834 have been injured.
Syria has reported 1,451 deaths and 3,531 injuries, CNN reports.
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New data: That’s how big the balloon was
The suspected Chinese spy balloon was about 60 meters high and carried equipment equivalent to the length of a large passenger airliner.
The writes the BBC citing US defense sources.
The balloon was shot down on Sunday and the US military is still searching for wreckage in the water.
A Swedish expert at the space company Esrange stated this weekend that the balloon may have been as big as the Globe.
It turned out to be pretty close to the truth. The globe is 85 meters high.
Many dead in landslides
At least 36 people have died and around twenty have been injured in several landslides in southern Peru, according to local authorities who say the number of dead and injured is expected to rise.
The landslides were triggered by heavy rains in the Arequipa region on Sunday.
Around 12,000 people have had their houses destroyed.
(TT, Aftonbladet)
The apartment shelled
The police were alerted to shootings in Åkers Styckebruk in Strängnäs on Monday evening.
Several loud bangs are said to have been heard in the area.
– When we got there, we could see traces that indicate that an apartment had been fired at from outside. There were people in the apartment in question, but no one was shot, says the police officer on duty, Torbjörn Lindqvist.
No one has been arrested. The police have an ongoing operation in the area.
– We have started a preliminary investigation regarding attempted murder and aggravated weapons crime and are in the process of technical investigation and door knocking.
Fire at the prison
The emergency services were alerted to Fosieanstalten, south of Malmö, during Monday evening.
– On the spot, it was found that there was smoke and traces of soot in a cell, says Correctional Service press secretary Olaf Zobel.
In the cell were two inmates who were moved to another part of the security class 2 facility.
– It is suspected that it is someone inside the institution who started it, says Sara Andersson, press spokesperson at police region South.
No one has been injured and the situation is reported to be calm.
The police are investigating it as damage by fire.
Erdogan doll in Finland
A doll representing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was driven around the center of Oulu in Finland on Monday, reports Iltalehti.
The demonstrators demanded the release of PKK founder Abdullah Öcalan, who has been imprisoned in Turkey since 1999, and held up flags of the terrorist-labeled Kurdish organization.
– We accuse Erdoğan of terrorism, genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, says the initiator Árpád Kovács to Iltalehti.
Read more here.
Moped in collision with car – seriously damaged
A moped rider has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after a traffic accident in central Stockholm.
– The moped has driven onto the wrong side of the road and collided head-on with a car that was driving in the right direction, says Rebecca Landberg, press spokesperson at the Stockholm Police.
The moped driver is suspected of gross negligence in traffic and gross drunk driving.
Tried to escape the police – found with the help of a thermal imaging camera
The police were on the lookout for a person in Tumba, south of Stockholm.
– We found a person who matched the descriptions we received from the public, says Rebecca Landberg, press spokesperson at the Stockholm Police.
The person tried to escape from the police and ran into the woods to hide.
Then a helicopter was called in.
– The thermal cameras were able to identify the person in a wooded area.
Why the person was interesting to the police is not stated, and the person is not currently suspected of a crime.
– When you run from the police, it’s usually a sign.
Burnt building
The emergency services have responded to a storage fire in Värnamo.
The building was engulfed in flames and there was a risk of spreading to adjacent residential buildings.
But by 7:30 p.m. the fire was under control.
Zelensky to Brussels
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will visit the EU summit in Brussels on Thursday, Belgian reports VRT.
According to the newspaper, he will speak during the extraordinary meeting of the European Parliament.
It will be the second time since the start of the war that Zelenskyy has traveled outside Ukraine’s border. In December, he visited US President Joe Biden in the White House.
Man stabbed – suspected attempted murder
A man has been found injured in Sundbyberg.
– They had to call an ambulance. It seems that the person has been injured with some kind of care, says police spokesperson Rebecca Landeberg.
According to information to Aftonbladet, it is a man who has been stabbed. Something that was later confirmed by the police.
No one has yet been arrested.
– Right now we don’t have that much. We are trying to create a picture of what happened. The plaintiff is receiving hospital help and has not been able to be heard, says Rebecca Landeberg.
The police have opened a preliminary investigation into attempted murder.
People parachuted from Karlatornet
Two people have parachuted from Karlatornet in Gothenburg on Monday, reports say Gothenburg Post.
– This is an extremely strange event, says Serneke Group’s press manager Johan Live to the newspaper.
Karlatornet is a skyscraper under construction in central Gothenburg.
– As far as we could judge, they jumped somewhere between floors 50-65, approximately 170-200 meters up.
It is not known how the people got into the area and into the building. Serneke will report the incident to the police.
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