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The diesel price rises further

First the tax increase, then two days of further increases. On Friday, the sandwiches raise the price by 30 öre. Since the turn of the year, the diesel price has risen by 55 öre to SEK 18.44 per litre.

The petrol price will also be raised on Friday, by 25 öre to 16.99. This after the price fell by 75 öre over the turn of the year as a result of the government deciding on a tax reduction on petrol.

Fire in garage – risk of explosions

There is a complete standstill in traffic at the Bjuvsleden in Mörarp in Skåne, due to a large fire.

– It is burning with open flames from a garage building, says police spokesperson Patric Fors.

The emergency services are currently working to extinguish the fire.

– There are cars, boats and petrol bottles in the garage. We are on site with three stations, says Jonas Hemmert at the rescue service.

There is a risk of explosions, according to Jonas Hemmert.

No people have been reported injured.

Snow chaos – big challenges in western Sweden

In the past 24 hours, large parts of the country have been hit by heavy snowfall.

– We have big challenges in Western Sweden and a bit towards Lake Vänern. There are strong winds and a lot of snow coming, says Bengt Olsson at the Swedish Transport Administration.

The snow removal is in full swing, but according to Bengt Olsson, there is barely time to plow the snow off the roads before new snow settles down.

– According to what is judged, it will be difficult up towards Uddevalla until the evening today, he says.

Train traffic has been canceled on several routes in Western Sweden and is expected to remain so until the evening.

The Swedish Transport Administration is also ready at several locations with service to be able to help trucks up hills that we know can be problematic in snowy weather.

Fingrid wants to seize Eagle S after suspected cable sabotage

The Finnish Central Criminal Police seized the ship Eagle S this weekend, after the suspicions that they damaged Estlink 2.

The grid company Fingrid also demands that the vessel be seized, writes Hufvudstadsbladet.

“Fingrid has submitted an application to the Helsinki District Court to seize the vessel Eagle S to secure our claim for damages on the Estlink connection,” the company writes on its website.

More prisoners are allowed to share a cell – lack of space

In order to be able to receive more detainees and convicts, the correctional service needs 700 extra places in detention centers and institutions this spring, reports Ekot.

The whole thing must be solved by allowing more people to share a cell.

In cells that are six to eight square meters, it should be possible to exchange a single bed for a bunk bed, according to Torbjörn Nyberg, unit manager at the Correctional Service.

Arrest of South Korea’s suspended president suspended

Attempts to arrest South Korea’s suspended president Yoon Suk-Yeol last night have been unsuccessful.

When the police arrived at Yoon’s residence, they were met with stiff resistance from his security team.

After six hours, the investigators withdrew. The arrest warrant expires on January 6.

Apartment fire in Malmö – one to hospital

A heavy fire has broken out in an apartment on Kirseberg in Malmö on the night of Friday.

– One person has been taken to hospital unconscious, says Mikael Lind, officer on duty at the police.

The person is a woman in her 40s.

The emergency services were called to the scene at 03:35. Before 05 o’clock the fire was extinguished.

– The apartment is cordoned off pending a technical examination.

The police labeled the incident as arson.

– I have no information about what may have started the fire at the moment.

There are no suspects or arrests.

Fire in restaurant – apartments evacuated

At 04:00 on Friday morning, the emergency services were called to a fire in a restaurant in Hagsätra in Stockholm.

The restaurant is located in an apartment building and several residents have been evacuated.

– It is a fully developed fire and we have a larger ongoing effort, says Alexander Westerberg, commanding officer at the rescue service.

– There are apartments above and in the same building. It appears to be an apartment building with a restaurant on the ground floor. There have been both spontaneous evacuations and that we have evacuated apartments.

At 04.45 there were no reports of anyone being injured.

Two dead in plane crash in USA

Two people have died and 19 have been injured when a small plane crashed through the roof of a furniture company in Fullerton, Southern California. At least 200 people worked in the premises.

The two who died are believed to have been on board the plane while those who were injured were in the building. The injuries vary from mild to very serious, the police say.

The alarm came around midnight Swedish time. Emergency services that arrived at the scene together with the police had to fight a fire that broke out in the premises and evacuate nearby businesses.

According to the site Flightaware, the aircraft in question had four seats and was single-engined. It crashed less than two minutes after taking off from a nearby airport.

Israeli raids on targets in Aleppo

Israel has attacked targets south of Aleppo in Syria, according to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) and residents nearby.

According to SOHR, the attacks must have been aimed at defense and research facilities in the area and describes it as “at least seven massive explosions were heard”.

Since the Islamist-led rebels overthrew Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December, Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes against targets on Syrian soil.

Artist Wayne Osmond dead

Artist Wayne Osmond, one of the founders and members of the sibling pop group The Osmonds, has died. He died of a stroke on New Year’s Day, in Utah, USA, aged 73, writes Sky news.

Osmond’s family have paid tribute to him on social media.

“My brother was a saint before he came to this world, and he will leave an even greater saint,” writes Osmond’s younger brother and bandmate, Merrill Osmond, in a Facebook post.

“I have never known a man who had more humility. A man completely without guile. An individual who was quick to forgive and had the ability to show unconditional love to everyone he ever met.”

The Osmonds broke through in the 60s, were big in the 70s but continued to play until the late 00s when Wayne, who was the second oldest of the siblings, had to retire due to health reasons.

Investigators tried to arrest Yoon – thwarted by military

Investigators in South Korea’s capital Seoul tried during the night to Friday to arrest the country’s suspended president Yoon Suk-Yeol in his residence – but were prevented by military personnel who were inside the presidential residence, writes TT.

“The execution of the arrest warrant against President Yoon Suk-Yeol has begun,” the anti-corruption agency investigating Yoon announced in connection with the operation, according to TT.

Plane crash in California – 11 injured

Eleven people have been injured after a plane crashed into a warehouse near Fullerton Airport, in Orange County in southern California, writes Los Angeles Times.

About a hundred people who were inside the building had to be evacuated after the accident, which happened shortly after 2 pm on Thursday afternoon, local time.

Dinosaur tracks discovered in UK

Around 200 dinosaur footprints, dating back 166 million years, have been unearthed by scientists in the UK – a find believed to be the largest ever made in the country.

The discovery was made by research teams from the universities of Oxford and Birmingham at a quarry in Oxfordshire in central England after a person working to remove mud with an excavator came across “unusual irregularities”.

Five extensive paths with tracks have now been found at the site, the longest of which is over 150 metres.

Four of the tracks are believed to have been made by a long-necked herbivorous dinosaur, most likely a Cetiosaurus. The fifth track probably belongs to a nine-meter-long carnivorous Megalosaurus, according to the University of Birmingham.