THREE NEWS YOU CAN’T MISS TODAY
For just over a month, residents of Newfoundland, Canada, have been reporting mysterious bright blobs floating ashore along the beaches.
Resident Stan Tobin describes them to the BBC as pasty and with an odor reminiscent of vegetable oil.
– As if someone has tried to bake bread and done a bad job, he says.
The authorities are now trying to get answers to what the lumps are. Nothing knows. According to a marine ecologist, they do not consist of biological material and another expert has ruled out that they contain oil or diesel, writes the BBC.
THREE NEWS YOU CAN’T MISS
A fire broke out during a private party on a boat in central Stockholm on Saturday evening.
The rescue service was alerted at 23.07 to the boat on Söder Mälarstrand.
– A candle had ignited the styrofoam and there was smoke. We are there for control. They had extinguished the fire themselves, says Lena Hoffman, line operator at the rescue center.
An ambulance is also on site.
– People have been affected by the smoke, says Lena Hoffman.
A 55-year-old woman has been hit by a bus in central Gothenburg.
The accident happened shortly after 9 p.m.
The woman is now being helped by paramedics.
Police are on the scene and talking to witnesses.
The defendants are suspected of unlawful depiction of protected objects and risk fines. Archive image. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT
Six people have been prosecuted for photographing conscripts at a regiment in Skåne in August, Dagens Nyheter reports.
The defendants must be parents and siblings of the conscripts. They were there in connection with the year’s third and final deployment to soldier training.
The six people have been prosecuted for suspected illegal depiction of protected objects and risk fines of up to just over SEK 20,000, according to DN.
The prosecution is due to the fact that before the incident, the regiment had recurring problems with private individuals who photographed the facility, despite the fact that it is classified as a protected object and may not be photographed.
Former Scottish Prime Minister Alex Salmond has died. Archive image. Photo: Daniel Leal/AP/TT
The former Prime Minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond, is dead, several media reports. The First Minister is the political leader of Scotland and head of government for the Scottish Government.
Salmond, who led a Scottish government for seven years until 2014, has been at the forefront of efforts to get a majority of Scots to seek independence from Britain.
According to the BBC, he fell ill after giving a speech in North Macedonia on Saturday. Salmond was 69 years old.
More than 1.6 million people have lost power in Brazil’s São Paulo as a result of a powerful storm.
The storm moved in over the metropolitan area on Friday and caused extensive damage to vegetation and infrastructure, among other things.
According to local authorities, wind gusts of up to 30 meters per second were measured, which caused problems for both water and electricity supply in the multi-million city.
Several neighborhoods were still without power Saturday, even though more than 16 hours had passed since the storm passed. At least five people are said to have died in the state as a result of the storm.
São Paulo is the largest city in terms of population in South America.
There has been a fire in an apartment in Katrineholm.
Residents in the apartment building have been evacuated.
– The fire is out, but there is a lot of smoke in the stairwell, says Mikael Kalered at the rescue service.
It is unclear how the fire started.
– We evacuate in slightly different ways. Often there are smoke hatches that allow us to evacuate via the stairwell, says Mikael Kalered and continues:
– But if there is a risk of fire in the stairwell, we evacuate via balconies.
A car and a motorcycle have collided on national highway 55 at the height of Katrineholm.
The accident happened at 4:30 p.m.
– The person on the motorcycle and four people who were in the car have been taken to hospital, says Mikael Kalered at the rescue service.
At 7 p.m., the police state that the motorcyclist, a man in his 70s, died of his injuries.
Relatives have been notified.
– It is very tragic, says Petter Gustavii at the police.
The accident is being investigated as causing the death of another.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk wants to temporarily suspend the right to asylum in the country. Photo: Wojciech Strozyk/AP/TT
Poland wants to temporarily suspend the right to asylum in the country as part of a new migration policy. The reason is that people smugglers and countries such as Russia and Belarus abuse the system, claims the country’s president Donald Tusk.
– I say loudly and proudly that our migration strategy will include a temporary suspension of the right to asylum on our territory, he says.
Tusk, who is due to present a migration policy package on Tuesday, said in a speech on Saturday that Poland will wage a “merciless” fight against undocumented immigrants entering the country.
The police suspect crime in a close relationship after a man assaulted a woman in a residence in Järfälla, north of Stockholm.
The alarm came in at around 1pm on Saturday afternoon.
The woman was taken to hospital by ambulance.
The man has been arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault and unlawful threats.
A fire has broken out in the Malmberget mine in Gällivare municipality.
The rescue service in Luleå, the local rescue service from LKAB as well as several ambulances and an ambulance helicopter rushed to the scene.
According to preliminary information, the fire must have started in a pipe stack at a depth of 750 metres.
– There are people left in the mine. An ambulance is on site to be prepared if someone needs medical care. But there is no information about any injuries at the moment, says Emilia Salmela, press communicator at LKAB.
She states that the staff down in the mine have gathered in rescue chambers to take shelter from fire and smoke.
The fire was quickly extinguished.
– The emergency services are still on the scene to ventilate all the smoke. The forecast is a maximum of one hour, says Alexandra Norén, alarm and line operator at the rescue service.
LKAB urges anyone who has inhaled the toxic fire smoke to seek medical care.
A traffic accident has occurred at 15:00 on the E6 at the height of Bäckebol in Gothenburg.
According to information to the police, six cars are involved in the accident. It is unclear how the cars collided.
– There is no information about any personal injuries at the moment, says Hans-Jörgen Ostler, press spokesperson at the police.
Traffic is affected at the site.
A man has been injured in a parachute accident in Västerås.
– A rescue operation is currently underway at the scene, ambulance, rescue service and police are there, says Niklas Lindén at the Maritime and Air Rescue Centre.
According to the police, the man is seriously injured.
The parachute club Aros confirms that it is one of their jumpers who is affected.
– There is a person who was injured in connection with landing. It is a certified parachutist who was taken care of by an ambulance, says chairman Johan Janzén.
Do you know how the person is doing?
– Unfortunately, I cannot answer that.
Now the club has started its own investigation into the incident.
– We look at what happened and if there is anything we can learn to make it even safer.
In a press release, the Norwegian police write that the country is introducing a temporary internal border control. The background is the security police’s decision to increase the terror threat level.
This involves, for example, the collection of information and passenger data, but the border crossings are not expected to take any longer than before.
– It only affects ordinary travelers to a small extent and there will not be queues at the border, says Roar Hansen, communications advisor at the police directorate to Aftonbladet.
The temporary border control initially applies until October 22, if no new decision is made.
The giant pumpkin and Peter Holst Olsen. Photo: Bax Lindhardt
Growers from all over Denmark have taken part in a competition as part of the Halloween celebrations at Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen.
Today, a Nordic record was set with a pumpkin that weighed 1,115.8 kilograms.
The man behind the big pumpkin is debutant Peter Holst Olsen from Næstved.
It can be viewed until November 3.
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