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Helsingevatten’s water is safe to drink, states Bollnäs municipality.
On Sunday, the municipality issued a VMA – important message to the public – about unfit drinking water.
But now samples show that the water is not contaminated.
– This announcement is a great relief. It has been an increased burden on our businesses, which have handled the situation in an exemplary manner. I also understand that this has created concern and many questions, says municipal manager Helena Tillstrand in a press release.
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Last Thursday, several shots were fired at the premises of the Israeli company Elbit in Gothenburg.
Now a 15-year-old boy is being held on suspicion of having instigated the crime, reports say Gothenburg Post.
A 13-year-old was also arrested shortly after the incident on suspicion of shooting at the building. The boy has now been placed at LVU.
The Swedish Foreign Ministry is reducing staff at the embassy in Lebanon.
The reason is that fewer and fewer Swedes in Lebanon seek consular assistance. This is stated by Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard in a post on X.
“This applies to both inquiries at the Swedish embassy in Beirut and inquiries to the Foreign Ministry’s consular emergency service. The pressure has now, from a low level, decreased further and it is now about a few calls per day,” writes Malmer Stenergard.
It should also be easier now to get home with commercial flights, says the minister.
Meanwhile, the US Embassy in Lebanon is urging American citizens to leave the country immediately.
At 1:53 p.m., the emergency services received an alarm about an explosion and a fire in a house in Malmö.
– We are there. One or more explosions have occurred in a conservatory of a villa. It should also have started to burn, but when we get there the fire is out, says Mattias Sköld, officer on duty.
It was a person in the villa who raised the alarm about the explosions and there are no reports of injuries.
– We need to investigate what has happened. The emergency services have not had to evacuate any residents.
According to the police, it is a bicycle battery that has exploded.
– The bomb shelter is on its way to ensure what happened, says police spokesperson Patric Fors.
In 2020, covert data interception was introduced as a temporary means of coercion.
Now the government wants the tool to become permanent.
The government proposes, among other things, that data reading should be used in more cases, so that the police can find more suspects.
They also want the rules regarding data reading to be clarified.
A bus with school students has run off the road and overturned in Hudiksvall municipality.
The alarm came in at 1:33 p.m. Police and emergency services have rushed to the scene.
– It is a bus with 50 to 60 students, says Magnus Jansson Klarin, press spokesperson at the police.
The bus was driving on a minor forest road when the accident occurred. The accident is said to have been caused by a “loose roadside”.
All people on board must have got off the bus.
– It hasn’t gone fast, only around 10 km/h. The bus overturned, but the students survived without injury and managed to get out, says Jens Hermansson, the duty officer of the rescue service.
The students who are in year 9 will now be allowed to travel from the site with a replacement bus.
Read more here.
Westfield Täby Centrum was evacuated on Monday. According to the emergency services, it is an automatic alarm.
Residents and staff at a youth home in Hudiksvall have been offered a cookie with cannabis. This is what the police write on their website.
Coffee was eaten on Sunday. During a check, all three who ate the cake tested positive for cannabis. It was staff at the youth center who contacted the police.
After questioning, the police established three cases of assault. The cookie has been seized.
There are currently no suspects in the crime.
The Gothenburg-Skövde-Stockholm train service is at a standstill due to a fire, the Swedish Transport Agency writes on its website. There has been a stop between Alingsås and Gothenburg since 11.20
– It’s not a fire, but the brakes are running hot. We have left the scene and traffic should be moving again soon, says Niklas Ignell, officer on duty at the rescue service.
The Swedish Riksbank’s prize in economic science in memory of Alfred Nobel 2024 goes to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A Robinson.
They are praised for their research on how institutions shape and affect wealth.
Read more here.
After the alarm about unserviceable drinking water in Freluga and Bollnäs, the police investigate a suspected sabotage.
– We have had technicians on site as well as search dogs and sent some tracks for analysis, says Tobias Ahlén Svalbro, press spokesperson at the police.
The police will soon start knocking on doors in the Granberget residential area to possibly hear witnesses.
There is only one way up to the water tower where it is hoped that someone has seen something unusual recently.
– We are very interested in receiving tips from the public. Actually, about everything you experience that is not part of normal life in Bollnäs.
The police also want to get in touch with people who may have access to surveillance cameras in the area.
Read more here.
SMHI has issued a yellow warning for sudden ice slippage.
“Enlightenment from the west with the risk of rapid freezing of wet roads with icy roads as a result”, SMHI writes on its website.
The warning applies to the eastern parts of northern Norrland and is expected to affect until Tuesday.
The icy conditions can cause traffic to slow down due to slippage. According to SMHI, there is also a risk of traffic accidents, delays in bus and air traffic and canceled departures.
In Uppsala, a man in his 30s got a projector screen in his head and was transported to hospital by ambulance.
– The damage is not serious. The man went to the hospital for a check-up, says Magnus Jansson Klarin, the police’s press officer.
A report of causing bodily harm through a workplace accident has been drawn up.
Another person has been arrested after the attack on the Israeli company Elbit Systems in Kallebäck on Thursday, according to GP.
Since before, a 13-year-old boy has been detained in the case, suspected of having carried out the whole thing.
The newly arrested is a young man who is now suspected of inciting both attempted murder and aggravated weapons offences. He was arrested this weekend.
Sign showing the way to Northvolt’s factory in Skellefteå. Archive image. Photo: Pontus Lundahl/TT
Crisis-affected Northvolt has made a payment to the Swedish Tax Agency, says press manager Matti Kataja to the Bloomberg news agency.
Aftonbladet is looking for Matti Kataja.
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