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  • Fire in Ystad under control

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    Clara Knäpper Bohman

    Several homes have been affected by a fire that broke out in an apartment in a row of townhouses in Sövestad, just north of Ystad, during Sunday morning.

    The fire is now under control, the rescue service told TT.

    – We are there for surveillance and will be there all night, says Nadia Hellsten, alarm and command officer at the rescue service south.

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  • Clara Knäpper Bohman

    15.15

    Press conference about Gröna Lund at 5 p.m

    After the tragic accident at Gröna Lund, the theme park’s spokespersons will hold a press conference at 5:00 pm at Hasselbacken in Stockholm, TT reports.

  • Clara Knäpper Bohman

    14.55

    The Minister of Culture on the accident: Unbelievable

    Minister of Culture Parisa Liljestrand. Photo: Marko Säävälä/TT

    After the serious accident at Gröna Lund in Stockholm, Culture Minister Parisa Liljestrand (M) writes in a statement to TT:

    – It is unimaginable to hear the news about the terrible accident at Gröna Lund. I visited the theme park myself with my family recently and can’t even imagine the feeling when the happiest of days suddenly turns to the worst.

    Liljestrand continues:

    – My thoughts go out to the victims and their families and loved ones.

  • Seven people injured in the accident

    Seven people have been injured in the accident at Gröna Lund, the police announce.

    It concerns both children and adults, and the people are now being treated in hospital.

    For some of the people, it should not be “serious injuries”.

    – The extent of the damage is unclear, says Helena Boström Thomas, press spokesperson for the Stockholm Police.

    One person has died, according to Gröna Lund.

  • Clara Knäpper Bohman

    14.11

    Several dead in Russian airstrike in Syria

    At least eleven people were killed in Russian airstrikes in northwestern Syria during Sunday morning, TT reports.

    Seven of the dead are reportedly civilians.

    About thirty people have also been injured, most of them in an airstrike in the rebel-held province of Idlib.

    The Russian forces are fighting for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. According to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the Russian military says the airstrike is a response to deadly drone strikes by rebels in the area.

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    14.05

    Kristersson: The Russian situation is an internal Russian matter

    – The situation in Russia is an internal Russian matter,” states Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) in a text message to TT.

    Yesterday, an extraordinary meeting of the National Security Council was held on Sunday due to the domestic political developments in Russia.

    – The government follows developments closely and maintains close contact with Sweden’s international partners. The West’s and other countries’ support for Ukraine does not change as a result, says Kristersson.

  • Gröna Lund: “Will not open until we investigate”

    Annika Troselius, information manager at Gröna Lund, says that they will not open again until the accident has been investigated.

    – We currently do not know how this could have happened. We won’t open until we get to the bottom of it. We are not even currently talking about opening again, she says.

    One person has died and several people are injured after an accident occurred on the Jetline roller coaster today.

    – We don’t know how it could have happened. As it stands now, it appears that the train on the Jetline roller coaster has partially derailed, causing several people to fall out of the carriage.

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  • Putin after the Wagner coup: The war is the highest priority

    Continues to avoid calling the war a war. Photo: Gavriil Grigorov / AP

    Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks out for the first time since the Wagner Group announced it would halt its advance in Russia, reports The daily newspaper.

    – I am in constant contact with officials in the Ministry of Defence. The “military special operation” has the highest priority, says Putin.

    Since the war began, Putin has called it a “military special operation”.

    Furthermore, he says that he feels confident that all plans related to the war will “come to fruition”.

  • Accident at Gröna Lund

    Photo: Reader image

    An accident has occurred at Gröna Lund.

    – We have just arrived in Gröna Lund. We do not have a situational picture yet. But we have received an alarm from Gröna Lund about an accident, says Helena Boström Thomas, press spokesperson at the Stockholm Police.

    Pictures from the scene show that a carriage on the Jetline attraction has partially derailed.

    Read more here.

  • Details: Prigozhin must pay 50 million rubles to the victims’ families

    Ten people were in the transport plane that was allegedly shot down in Russia yesterday.

    Wagner group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin has agreed to pay 50 million rubles in compensation to the families of the dead, according to the Nexta news service.

    Prigozhin says that a “fool in the convoy” shot down everything that took off.

  • British police are urging people not to call 999

    Several police districts in Great Britain are urging people not to call the emergency number 999. This is because the emergency number is currently having technical problems, reports Sky News.

    Even the emergency services and the ambulance urge people not to use the number.

    Instead of using 999, the police write that you should call 101, which is a non-emergency number, like the Swedish 114 14.

    Update: At 11.15 the emergency number 999 should work again.

  • A knife cut in the throat in Oslo

    A person has been stabbed in the throat in Oslo, reports VG.

    The injured person has been taken to hospital.

    The police are on the scene and have arrested two people who they suspect are involved in the incident.

  • Ukrainian offensive launched

    Ukraine has begun major offensive operations in southern and eastern Ukraine again, the British Ministry of Defense writes.

    According to the Ministry of Defense, the experience gained from the initial two weeks of the counter-offensive has been useful and Ukraine has been able to attack the “deep and well-prepared Russian defense”

    In Luhansk, Russia is said to have advanced near the Serebrianka forest, near Crimea. However, Ukraine is said to have resisted a breakthrough from the Russian forces.

  • Man arrested for attempted murder

    A man was arrested this morning, suspected of stabbing another man in an apartment in Solna. He is now suspected of attempted murder.

    The injured man was taken to hospital. He was awake and able to speak, but his injuries are said to be serious.

    An apartment, which is suspected to be the scene of the crime, will now be examined by technicians.

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    Yes! You can find it here and here, among other things.

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    It is probably because the article from The Insider is actually in Russian. But if you want to take a look at it, you will find it linked in the notice or here.

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