Latest news – Nine detained after boat disaster

The US is not presenting a favorite for the post of NATO’s new Secretary General. This was said by the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, on Tuesday.

International media have reported that current NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg will likely be asked to continue for another year.

Stoltenberg’s term was extended last year as a result of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and expires on 1 October.

Last Monday, Stoltenberg said he did not plan to seek an extension. (TT)

The police have received several calls about gunfire in Ica Maxi’s parking garage in Malmö.

At the scene, a man in his 30s was found with a gunshot wound in a car. The man has died from his injuries.

The place is cordoned off and the police are looking for suspected perpetrators.

– We have sent forensic experts and special search dogs there to secure traces of weapons, while we are interviewing witnesses, says Rickard Lundquist, police spokesperson.

The police urge anyone who saw anything to get in touch.

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Ten people have died after drinking homemade alcohol with methanol at a party, TT writes.

Another 140 people are said to have fallen ill after the party, which was organized in the province of Alborz, west of the capital Tehran.

Iran banned the production and consumption of alcohol in 1979. After that, methanol has often been used in home-distilled beverages as an alternative to ingestible ethanol.

Over three tons of worm-infested meat and moldy fruit.

The environmental administration found it when they raided a grocery store in central Malmö on Tuesday, writes South Sweden.

The visit was made after the police were alerted about the conditions. The inspectors immediately discovered that most of the fruit and vegetables in the store were moldy.

There were also large quantities of frozen meat in the store.

– The frozen meat was in reality half thawed. We took videos when worms were crawling around on the meat, says inspector Anders Zetterlund to the newspaper.

The find is described as unusual, and the store had to be closed urgently.

The owner denies that there were worms in the meat, and blames the moldy fruit on the heat. He wants to open the store as soon as possible.

An 85-year-old man has died after a traffic accident outside Norrtälje.

Relatives have been notified.

On Tuesday afternoon, the emergency services were called to the scene after two cars collided.

Two more people were taken to hospital, a 95-year-old woman and a 45-year-old man. Their injuries are described at the scene as minor.

At least 41 people are reported to have died in a fire during a major gang brawl at a women’s prison in Honduras, reports AFP.

Local media reported that some of the victims had been burned to death while others were shot as the violence overwhelmed the guards.

Jørgen Ree Wiig/Fiskeridirektoratets sjøtjeneste Photo: Hvaldimir photographed in Finnmarken in Norway.

During Tuesday, Norwegian authorities have come out with a press release with a call for people to stay away from the Russian celebrity election “Hvaldimir”.

Whales are described as tame and that they will seek out people and it is therefore people’s responsibility to ensure that no accidents occur.

– We are now receiving reports of people swimming with the whales and there is also a lot of boat traffic in the area. This means a great risk for both people swimming with the whales, but also for the whales with all the boat traffic in the area, says fisheries director Frank Bakke-Jensen

The old railway bridge on Lidingö is on fire.

The emergency services are on site.

– It is old rubble on the bridge that caught fire, according to callers there were open flames and the fire spread, says Marie Nordahl, line operator at the rescue service.

More than 30 tons of shark fins have been seized by authorities in Brazil.

It is the biggest find in the world – and means that around 10,000 sharks have died.

The fins were discovered when they were to be sent to Asia, where in some parts they are considered to slow down aging and act as potency-enhancing agents.

Three people have been arrested in connection with a weapon being found in Solna, north of Stockholm.

The weapon is said to have been found by police outdoors. Two people who were checked in the immediate area were then arrested and are now suspected of serious weapons offences.

A while later, another person was also arrested on suspicion of serious weapons offences.

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Two men aged 30 and 55 respectively have been taken to hospital by ambulance after being injured by a sharp object in Gnosjö after some kind of quarrel

The same men are also arrested for aggravated assault.

– We are still at the scene and do not rule out at the moment that there may be more perpetrators, says Marcus Anefur, the police’s spokesperson for the East region.

According to information to Aftonbladet, the people must have been cut with knives.

An injured man has been found after a suspected shooting in Hisings Kärra in Gothenburg.

A large police operation is underway and the police have cordoned off an area.

The man was taken to hospital by ambulance. He is seriously injured, according to the medical service.

The police received the alarm shortly before 5 p.m.

– It probably happened in a residence. But the man has been found outdoors, says police spokesperson Stefan Gustafsson.

The incident is being investigated as attempted murder. A man has been arrested nearby and is suspected of involvement in the incident.

That man also had “certain injuries” according to the police and will be taken to hospital by ambulance.

A French ship with a deep-sea robot will participate in the search for the tourist submarine that disappeared on Sunday in connection with an expedition to the wreck of the Titanic, the BBC reports.

The French ship is expected to arrive on Wednesday.

Two other ships are searching along the surface, the US Coast Guard writes in a tweet, according to the BBC.

There is a fire in a multi-storey villa just outside central Örnsköldsvik.

– We have a problem with there being some gas bottles in a garage that is built together with the villa, we hope to get these out before it gets to that part, says Thomas Åslin, officer on duty at the rescue service in Medelpad.

No one should be injured.