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Tried to save his dog – killed by alligator
The alligator was captured and driven away from the area. Photo: St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office
An 85-year-old woman has been killed by an alligator in Fort Pierce, Florida, writes BBC.
The tragedy occurred when the woman was out for a walk with her dog.
Witnesses have said that the three-meter-long creature suddenly emerged from the water and lunged at the dog.
When the woman tried to save her pet, she herself was attacked.
The dog survived the attack.
The alligator was successfully overpowered – but it took six alligator hunters to capture the animal and get it into a van.
Alligator attacks are rare in Florida, and especially fatal, according to the state’s local Department of Fisheries and Wildlife.
If this happens, however, it is best to “fight back”.
According to the authority, the animals kill victims who can be easily overpowered – if you resist, however, they will often let go and retreat.
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Five-year-old girl found dead in park in Berlin
A massive rescue operation was launched in Berlin on Tuesday to search for a missing five-year-old girl.
100 people from the rescue service and a helicopter searched for the girl all afternoon.
At around 5:40 p.m., she was found dead by passers-by in a park in Pankow, in central Berlin.
According to information to Picture the girl had been killed with multiple stab wounds.
The police have cordoned off a large area in the park.
– The injuries show that you have to assume that it is a murder, says a press spokesperson at the police Berlin Zeitung.
A 19-year-old man has been arrested, suspected of murder.
The man has a connection to the girl, but the police have not said in what way.
Worst day of the year on Wall Street
The stock market week in the US got off to a bad start after the long weekend.
All major indexes had their worst day since the turn of the year, according to DI.
The S&P 500 fell 2 percent and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 2.1 percent.
Nasdaq’s composite index fared worst – it lost 2.5 percent.
Tesla fell a whopping 5.3 percent.
Apple and Alphabet, Google’s owning company, lost 2.7 percent each, writes TT.
Soldier killed in avalanche at Kebnekaise
Tarfala mountain station in the Kebnekaise massif. Photo: Staffan Lövstedt/TT
Today there was an avalanche on the south slope of Kebnekaise.
The alarm came in at 11:27. A rescue operation was launched with, among other things, an ambulance helicopter.
At the same time, the Swedish Armed Forces had an exercise in the area, and a soldier was dragged into the avalanche.
“A search and rescue operation was started immediately. The soldier was found and taken seriously injured by ambulance helicopter to the hospital in Tromsö in Norway. However, the soldier’s life could not be saved,” writes the Armed Forces in a press release.
The soldier belonged to Norrland’s dragoon regiment K 4.
“K 4 has established crisis management and is now focusing on taking care of relatives, staff at the unit, as well as supporting the police in their investigative work”.
Problem for Nordea – cannot log in
The bank Nordea had problems with its app and website on Tuesday evening.
Several customers reported that it was not possible to log in, and that error messages appeared.
According to Downdetector, many reported outages.
What caused the problem is unclear.
Turkey’s ambassador: Never doubted Sweden
Turkey’s ambassador to Sweden, Yönet Can Tezel, is grateful for all the help that Sweden has sent after the earthquake disaster.
It is something that will strengthen the countries’ relationship, he says to Dagens Nyheter.
– It has always been fundamentally good. It is a temporary thing now, about the NATO process, which sooner or later will hopefully and absolutely certainly resolve itself. It’s about delivering. We have never doubted Sweden, says Yönet Can Tezel to the newspaper.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Cavusoglu announced on Monday that talks between Sweden and Turkey regarding NATO are to be resumed.
Lidl recalls salami
Strolghino-Salami, Italiamo Photo: Lidl
Lidl recalls salami after alarm about salmonella.
It must be Italiamo’s Strolghino-Salami of 250 grams with a best before date of 1–2 May that may contain the bacteria.
Salami has been sold in all Lidl stores throughout Sweden, but will now be removed from the shelves.
“Lidl Sweden regrets and takes a serious view of what happened, is investigating together with the supplier how it could have happened, and that something similar does not happen again,” the company writes in a press release.
Customers who bought the salami are encouraged to advertise it.
Man dies in workplace accident
A man in his 40s has died after a workplace accident in Bengtsfors. He is said to have been stuck in an elevator.
The alarm about the accident came in at 3pm on Tuesday.
The police have started a preliminary investigation into causing the death of another through a workplace accident. According to them, there are circumstances that indicate that a crime may have been committed.
– I cannot answer exactly what it is. But there is reason to assume that there could be a guilty party, says police spokesperson Hans-Jörgen Ostler to TT.
Police technicians will investigate the accident scene.
The man’s next of kin have been notified.
The Finance Committee says yes to the government’s proposal for a new law
The finance committee says yes to a temporary tax on excess income from certain electricity production. The new proposal is estimated to increase the state’s income by SEK 362 million in 2023, the committee announces in a press release.
The proposal is that revenues of more than SEK 1,957 per megawatt hour are taxed at 90 percent, between March and June this year.
As the proposal is based on an EU regulation that has been in effect since 1 December 2022, the finance committee believes that it is important that the law comes into force as soon as possible.
Several parties have objections to the proposal. Among other things, the Social Democrats criticize that the law was not put in place sooner. From the Left Party, criticism is directed at the government setting the tax at the lowest possible level.
The proposal will be debated in the Riksdag tomorrow, when a decision will also be made.
Members rush to S in Botkyrka before an important meeting, according to Ekot
The Social Democrats in Botkyrka have gained approximately 90 new members ahead of the meeting when they will elect a new candidate for municipal board chairman.
– It is problematic, says Åsa Westlund, district chairman, to the radio channel.
A few weeks ago, the former chairman Ebba Östlin was voted out in a controversial meeting where people with gang connections were present, according to Aftonbladet’s information.
Read more here.
Girl hit by car
A 10-year-old girl has been hit by a car in Mölndal outside Gothenburg.
It is unclear how seriously injured the girl is, but according to the police, she should be conscious.
Police and ambulance are on the scene.
Details: The NATO application is taken up in Hungary
Sweden’s application to NATO will be taken up for debate in the Hungarian parliament on Wednesday next week, several sources state for SVT Nyheter.
So far, only Hungary and Turkey have not ratified Sweden’s and Finland’s application to NATO.
After that, a vote in parliament awaits on March 7 at the earliest, according to SVT.
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Does salmonella survive in hard-boiled eggs? Or in a cake? Sigh. Don’t dare use eggs at all now..
Bun-baking Grandma
According to The Swedish Food Agency kills salmonella within seconds at 65 degrees. So it’s just a matter of cooking/baking!
“U.S. urged to withdraw its and NATO military equipment from Ukraine to de-escalate its ‘intensified confrontation’ with Russia, ministry tells U.S. ambassador to Moscow Tracy Lynne”
Russia you mean?
Yes
Doesn’t quite match what you mean now, Jo?
Russia’s Foreign Ministry calls on the US to withdraw from Ukraine. The call was delivered to the US ambassador in Moscow.
Can’t find anything about the storm Otto. It was windy in Malmö so I thought the windows would smoke.
EMMA BRINKENMARK
Hello Emma! We wrote about Otto last Friday and Saturday when it stormed.
Here you can find those articles.
What are the SDs in Klippan reporting to the police for?
Jonas
The SD group in Klippan believes that the party does not have the right by law to exclude the local group.
Jonas Luckman, former SD chairman in Klippan, refers to the 18th chapter, fifth paragraph of the criminal code. It says like this:
“Anyone who practices illegal coercion or illegal threats with the intention of influencing the formation of public opinion or encroaching on the freedom of action within a political organization or professional or business association and thereby endangering the freedom of speech, assembly or association, is sentenced for a crime against civil liberties to prison in a maximum of six years’.
Hello !
President Joe Biden is currently meeting Polish President Andrzej Duda, no pictures or comments about it in Aftonbladet. He will also meet the so-called Bucharest group, i.e. 9 countries that make up the so-called NATO’s eastern flank. But for Aftonbladet it seems more important to have articles on how to lengthen the penis ;-))
Mariusz
Hi Mariusz! We have spent a large part of the day reporting from Vladimir Putin’s speech and yesterday from Biden’s visit to Kiev. We will also cover his visit to Poland during the day. However, we will always have a mix of news on the site for our readers.
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