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  • Norway: Police hunt for Halloween revelers

    A boy, dressed up to celebrate Halloween, sparked a police manhunt in Norway. Archive image. Photo: Denis Farrell/AP/TT

    The police in Skien received several alarms about an armed man wearing a robber’s hat during Saturday afternoon. Despite the fact that, according to the callers, the man did not threaten anyone, a large police hunt was launched.

    The description was initially a man in black clothes and a black robber’s cap, with a handgun in one hand, reports NRK.

    Shortly after 2 p.m., the police announced that they had made contact with the suspect – an underage boy who had been to a Halloween party.

    – We follow up with preventive calls, says operations leader Øystein Paus Eikedalen to the channel.

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  • Cyclist dead after traffic accident

    A cyclist in his 80s has died after colliding with a car in Uppsala.

    The accident happened at 2 pm on Saturday.

    – The man was traveling on a bicycle and collided with a car at an intersection, says Camilla Aggring, commander at the police.

    Do you suspect crime?

    – I cannot comment on that, says Camilla Aggring.

    Relatives are informed of the death.

  • FBI warns of fake videos

    The FBI has identified two videos falsely claiming to be from the agency.

    In one of the clips, it is claimed that the FBI arrested three groups suspected of election fraud – but the videos are fake.

    Another clip spreads false claims about Kamala Harris’ husband.

    The FBI is now urging the public to be attentive and source-critical to what is spread on social media and online.

  • Accident on the national road – car has overturned

    Two passenger cars are involved in an accident on national highway 41 near Borås.

    One of the cars has overturned and the other has ended up in the ditch.

    Police, emergency services and ambulance are called to the scene.

  • Crash on E4

    Two passenger cars have collided on the E4 at the height of Trafikplats Gröndal in the southbound direction.

    On the Swedish Transport Agency’s website it is stated that the accident has a major impact on traffic and that there are two cars in the left lane.

    The forecast is set for 18:30, but may change.

  • Girl dead – bitten to death by dog

    A ten-year-old girl has died after she was bitten by a dog in North Yorkshire in England, the BBC reports.

    The incident happened in the girl’s home and it was the family’s own dog that bit her.

    The police have taken the dog into custody.

  • One arrested after explosion

    Emergency services on site after the explosion. Photo: Reader picture

    During the night of Friday, a gate was blown up in Linnéstaden in Gothenburg.

    Now a man in his 30s has been arrested.

    The man was arrested on Saturday and has now been arrested on suspicion of aggravated vandalism.

  • Suspect for murder of mayor found dead

    The police operation after the two people were found dead on Monday. Photo: PULS 24 News TV via AP/TT

    A man suspected of killing a local mayor and another person in Austria earlier this week has been found dead, police said.

    A major search effort for the “extremely dangerous” man was launched on Monday, after the two dead people were found.

    A “dispute over hunting rights” was probably behind the shooting, according to officials.

    Hundreds of police officers and also helicopters have been involved in the search, mainly in the Mühlviertel region in northern Austria. On Saturday, the man was found dead, the suspect probably took his own life according to the police.

    The body was found near a vehicle he abandoned in the woods, near where he is accused of killing the victims.

  • Crash on the E18 – two to hospital

    Two passenger cars have collided on the E18 at the height of Barkaby.

    The accident happened at 16:30.

    Two people have been taken to hospital by ambulance, but the extent of their injuries is unknown.

    The cars will be towed from the scene and a report will be written about not having adapted the suspension to the vehicle in front.

    On the Swedish Transport Agency’s website there is no information about traffic disruptions at the site.

  • Crash on the E6

    A van and a car have collided on the E6 at Lackarebäcksmotet, in the southbound direction, writes GP.

    Two lanes are closed.

    Police, emergency services and ambulance are called to the scene.

  • Missing couple found dead after mushroom excursion

    Last Friday, the couple disappeared when they were going to pick mushrooms in a forest in Boxholm.

    Now they have been found dead during the Missing People search effort on Saturday.

    Relatives have been notified.

    Read more here.

  • Person stuck on cliff ledge

    A person has become stuck on a rock ledge outside Tjörn.

    The emergency services were on the scene.

    – It is an adult who has been walking around and then got stuck, says Lidija Bradaric, alarm and line operator.

    The sea rescue helicopter is also involved, and was able to winch the person up from the ledge and winch them back home in a boat that was able to drive ashore.

    – An ambulance was waiting there and did a check. The person was awake and talkative and able to walk, says Mats Gränsmark, commanding officer of the rescue service.

    The alarm came in shortly before 3 p.m.

  • The UN environmental meeting has ended – big questions remain

    Colombian President Gustavo Petro speaks during the opening ceremony of COP16 in Cali, Colombia, on October 20. Archive image. Photo: Fernando Vergara/AP/TT

    The UN meeting COP16 in Colombia has ended, writes AFP.

    The meeting, which was actually supposed to be finished on Friday, dragged heavily over time. In the end, there were so few delegates left that the meeting ended before some of the most important issues were dealt with, writes Dagens Nyheter.

  • Woman found dead

    A woman has been found dead in an apartment in Lund.

    The woman’s injuries indicate that she may have been subjected to violence.

    Relatives have been notified. Police are tight-lipped about the incident, but say they are investigating the incident as a homicide.

    – She is of adult age, but I do not go into age anymore, says Evelina Olsson, press spokesperson at the police.

    – We have blocked off the apartment and are waiting for technicians. We also work with information retrieval.

    A man in his 60s was arrested during the afternoon on suspicion of murder.

  • Hospital attack in northern Italy

    A 35-year-old man entered a hospital armed with a knife in the Padua province of Italy on Saturday, reports Il Resto del Carlino.

    The man attacked several people. A doctor, a nurse and two police officers who tried to stop him were injured.

    No one is reported to have been killed.

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