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Hospital: At least 19 dead in attack on northern Gaza

At least 19 people have been killed in an attack on a building where displaced people took shelter in northern Gaza, the Kamal Adwan hospital said.

The hospital has received the victims of the attack that occurred in the city of Beit Lahia during the night of Wednesday. According to the information, eight of the victims are from the same family.

Since the beginning of October, Israel has intensified its offensive against terrorist-branded Hamas in northern Gaza, but has not initially commented on the hospital’s latest information.

The war broke out with Hamas’s large-scale attack on Israel on October 7 last year.

School is closed after threats

A school in Kävlinge will be closed on Wednesday. The reason is that some form of threat has been directed at the school, writes Sydsvenskan.

An email was sent out to all guardians on Wednesday.

Kävlinge municipality’s director of education confirms the information.

– There was a threat late yesterday connected to the Olympic School. It has been reported to the police and the police are working on the matter, it is a pure security measure, says the director of education to the newspaper.

The threat concerns parts of the school.

Electricity prices skyrocket in southern Sweden

During Wednesday morning, electricity prices are soaring in southern Sweden. This applies to the two southernmost electricity areas SE3 and SE4.

During the morning, the price is approximately SEK 2.5 per kilowatt hour in SE3 and SEK 2.4 per kilowatt hour in SE4.

And during the afternoon it is expected to rise even more. For a few hours, the price will be 167 times higher in the south of Sweden than in the north, writes TT.

An injured man came to the emergency room after a suspected attempted murder

An injured man came into the hospital in Kristianstad during the night. According to the police, the man, who is 35 years old, had stab wounds or other types of injuries on his body.

The incident is therefore being investigated as attempted murder.

An apartment in Osby has been identified as a suspected crime scene. It has been cordoned off but no one has been arrested.

SMHI issues a yellow warning

On Wednesday morning, SMHI issued a yellow warning for wind in combination with snowfall in Norrbotten.

The warning applies to the Calffjällen on Norrbottensfjällen and Västerbottensfjällen.

The warning applies from 06.00 to 16.00 on Wednesday.

Syrian rebels are said to have captured the new city

The Islamist movement Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) claims to have taken control of the city of Dayr az-Zawr in Syria, reports the BBC.

In a statement, the movement says, among other things, “our forces have taken over the entire city”.

About 270,000 people live in Dayr az-Zawr.

After the elevator accident – now the supply chain is being investigated

The EU Parliament must review how the number of supplier levels within, for example, the construction sector can be limited.

The report from the parliament’s labor market committee is to be made following a Swedish initiative due to the elevator accident in Sundbyberg exactly one year ago when five construction workers died.

Afterwards, it turned out that 119 companies were active in the workplace, in five different levels.

“The elevator accident in Sundbyberg puts the finger on the problem. There is a need for a limitation of long subcontractor links and for me it is clear that Europe must limit to a maximum of two links”, writes EU Member of Parliament Johan Danielsson (S) in a statement.

Heavy fire in villa – cannot be extinguished

The emergency services were alerted at 02.13 to an ongoing house fire northeast of Uppsala.

– A passing motorist saw the flames from a major road. It was like a big May bonfire when we arrived. The house will burn down. We don’t put out the fire, but stand and watch, says Lars Lindberg, line operator at the rescue service.

There are no reports of personal injuries. The police have routinely opened a preliminary investigation into arson, a crime classification that does not mean that someone has to be dead.

Loud bang in Malmö – injuries at bar

Shortly after 03 a loud bang was heard in central Malmö.

– There were quite a few conversations, says Anders Sandqvist, commander at the police’s regional command centre.

According to the police, the explosion was probably caused by a piece of fireworks. It damaged a Christmas tree and the entrance to a bar between Gustav Adolfs torg and the canal.

– The Christmas tree caught fire and the glass panes in the entrance were cracked. We have no information about what it was that detonated, says Mattias Sköld at the rescue service.

Readers describe that the bangs were heard both at Caroli and Triangeln.

“It echoed all over town,” writes a resident who came forward.

There are no reports of personal injuries.

Explosion and bomb alarm – within 53 minutes

An explosion destroyed a gate to an apartment building in Falkenberg during the night.

Just under an hour earlier, a suspected dangerous object was thrown into an apartment in another part of the city.

The rebels in Syria: Captured new city

The Islamist movement HTS in Syria claims to have taken control of the eastern city of Dayr az-Zawr, which has a population of about 270,000 people.

“Our forces have taken over the entire city of Dayr az-Zawr,” the movement said in a statement.

HTS and its leader Ahmed al-Sharaa (who has also used the pseudonym Abu Mohammed al-Julani) deposed the Assad regime on Sunday in conjunction with the capture of Damascus.

Alarm about explosion in hairdressing salon – heavy fire

The emergency services and police have been alerted to an explosion in a hair salon in Uppsala. There are also several apartments in the house.

According to the police, there is a heavy fire at the scene.

– It is quite an explosive fire, so there is a lot of banging, says Magnus Jansson Klarin at the police.

It is unclear how the fire started.

– Since there are residences in the house, they are now considering starting an evacuation.

According to the emergency services, the fire was extinguished shortly before midnight.

– We will be on site for about two more hours, says commanding officer Alex Westerberg.

There is currently no information that people have been injured.

Became the Spanish master of the word game – could not speak Spanish

Nigel Richards, 57, recently became the Spanish Scrabble champion. It was possibly surprising because he is from New Zealand and does not speak Spanish. But the victory was still no sensation, reports The Guardian.

Nigel Richards has previously won the French championships without knowing French.

– He learned the dictionary in nine weeks, a friend told local media.

Richards also has several World Cup titles in English and is described by The Guardian as a Tiger Woods in Scrabble.

In Sweden, the game was previously known as Alfapet. For younger readers, it can best be described as an IRL version of Wordfeud.

Drunken brawl at spa – two taken into custody

On Tuesday evening, the police were called to a spa in central Västerås.

– It was a person sunbathing in the solarium who heard that there was knocking and fighting in the premises. The person called the patrol there, says Magnus Jansson Klarin at the police.

At the scene, the police found two drunk people.

– It was a man and a woman who were arguing. They were very drunk, says Magnus Jansson Klarin.

It is unclear what they were arguing about.

– Nothing seems to have broken, so we have really only taken care of the people according to the law on taking care of intoxicated people.