Fire in residential building – woman arrested

Explosion in Skärholmen – affects the subway

On Monday evening, the police received an alarm about an explosion in Skärholmen in southern Stockholm.

Many members of the public call the police and report, among other things, “broken window panes”.

– No one should be injured, says Mats Eriksson, police spokesperson.

SL’s subway trains do not stop at Vårberg and Skärholmen stations following a decision by the police.

The police have started a preliminary investigation into public dangerous devastation.

Luleå snow poor – forced to use snow cannon

Luleå is just south of the Arctic Circle.

Nevertheless, the city has so little snow this winter that the ski slopes are forced to use snow cannons, write The Norrbottens courier.

The coastal area near Luleå has so far had the snowiest winter in at least 15 years. In the forests there are patches of bare ground.

In Måttsundsbacken, snow cannons are used to cover the bare ground on the ski slopes.

– Parts of the central hill look like it’s April, says Gary Stewart, who runs Måttsundsbacken, to the newspaper.

The Minister of Defense on the cable task: “Not new”

Yesterday, the Washington Post revealed that, according to the newspaper’s sources, Russia is no longer suspected of being behind the latest cable breaches in the Baltic Sea.

Defense Minister Pål Jonsson is now commenting on the information via his press secretary.

– The information presented in the Washington Post is not new to us. The government has been very clear, including at the press conference we held during People and Defence, that we do not speculate about motives or possible intent, says Jonsson and continues.

– Regardless of this, the incidents are very serious given the damage that occurred and must therefore be taken very seriously. Tightening up maritime surveillance is one way to reduce the risks of this happening again, regardless of the cause. Otherwise, a preliminary investigation into suspected sabotage is underway and I will not prejudge the conclusions of this investigation.

Bus has run off the road – one to hospital

A bus drove into the ditch on route 272 outside Sandviken at half past seven, according to the police.

– Everyone is off the bus, one person is loaded in an ambulance to hospital. It is very slippery at the site, says the officer on duty at the rescue service.

The bus had “three-four” passengers.

According to the Swedish Transport Administration, there is a risk of affected accessibility.

Donald Trump is president

Now it’s done! Donald Trump was sworn in shortly after 6 p.m. as the 47th president of the United States at a ceremony in the Capitol.

School employee detained for sexual offense against student

A man has been arrested on suspicion of sexual offenses against a student at a high school in Västerås where he works, the police write.

The student allegedly “sent intimate pictures of himself under duress”.

The man was arrested on probable cause on suspicion of gross exploitation of children for sexual posing, and was detained on Monday afternoon. He is also suspected of child pornography offences.

The assaults are said to have taken place from mid-December until last Friday, when he was arrested by the police.

Guardians are informed. There is no information if more students have been affected.

Frontal collision in Knivsta – one to hospital

Two cars collided head-on on Forsbyvägen in Knivsta on Monday afternoon.

Police, emergency services and an ambulance rushed to the scene of the accident, where one person was taken to hospital according to the police.

The accident affects traffic along Forsbyvägen.

Two arrested for suspected murder in Stockholm

Early last Saturday, a dead person was found by passers-by in Vårby farm south of Stockholm.

The police are tight-lipped about the victim, but confirm that two people have been arrested and detained on suspicion of involvement in the crime.

A nearby apartment was also examined by police forensics.

On Saturday, the cause of death was not determined and the police opened a preliminary investigation into murder.

The police are counting the number of shootings

Previously, the police reported that the number of shootings, and thus the number of dead and injured, decreased sharply from 2023 to 2024.

Now the number of shootings in 2024 is increased by around ten percent, from 270 to 296.

That’s still down from a total of 368 shootings in 2023.

“The reason for this is technical problems with the reporting”, writes the police.

The number of injured is counted from 57 to 66, while the number of deceased remains at 44 in total.

That is a decrease from 54 dead and 108 injured in 2023.

A man came in with a stab wound

An injured man came into the emergency room in Järva in Stockholm today.

– He had stab wounds. He had to go by ambulance from there to a hospital, says Mats Eriksson at the police in Stockholm.

The police are now investigating what happened and who inflicted the injuries on the man.

– We have started a preliminary investigation concerning serious assault, says Mats Eriksson.

Person trapped under backhoe

The police were called to the island of Mällsten outside Nynäshamn in Stockholm’s southern archipelago because a person had a shovel run over him during some kind of digging work.

– The person must have initially been trapped but got free. The extent of the damage is unclear but should not be life-threatening, says police spokesperson Mats Eriksson.

Man found dead in residence

A man has been found dead in a home in Rinkeby.

The police have opened a preliminary investigation into murder.

– It is currently under unclear circumstances that this person has died. We received the alarm at a quarter past one, says Mats Eriksson, press spokesperson at the police.

Relatives have been notified, according to the police.

Marburg virus outbreak confirmed in Tanzania

A sample from a remote part of northern Tanzania confirms the presence of Marburg virus, President Samia Suluhu announces. The disease is highly contagious and can lead to death in 88 percent of cases if no treatment is given.

The World Health Organization (WHO) was the first to report a suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus last week. At the time, eight people had died in the Kagera region.

Tanzanian health officials then disputed the report, stating that tests had returned negative results. But now the president confirms that new tests have confirmed a case of the disease. 25 samples gave negative results.

Marburg virus is an RNA virus belonging to the filovirus family, which causes hemorrhagic fever (hemorrhagic fever).

Agent who protected Trump becomes new Secret Service chief

He is seen next to Donald Trump seconds after the assassination attempt at a rally in July.

Now the president-to-be intends to appoint agent Sean Curran as the new head of the entire Secret Service, the police agency tasked with protecting the president and vice president, writes Guardian.

Curran has been in charge of Trump’s security for three years.

– Sean is a great patriot and will put an end to all the stupidity once and for all, writes Donald Trump Jr. on X.