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A battery may have caused a fire in an apartment building in Tyresö
today at 08.14 Johanna Sundbeck
The police and emergency services were alerted to a fire in an apartment building in Tyresö on Saturday evening.
The fire had an explosive course, according to the police. The national bomb protection has therefore also been on site and carried out investigations.
A man was in the home and was arrested, initially suspected of gross violation of the Act on Flammable and Explosive Goods and Publicly Dangerous Devastation.
However, he was later released when it emerged that the fire may have started in connection with battery charging, the police report.
Suspicions remain as technicians are to carry out a fire investigation. No one was injured in the fire.
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Woman found dead in Malmö – man arrested
A 55-year-old woman has been found dead in a home in Malmö.
Police, emergency services and an ambulance went to the address just before 19:00 on Christmas Eve evening after an alarm about a lifeless person.
The police are investigating the incident as a murder. A 35-year-old man has been arrested on reasonable suspicion, the lower level of suspicion.
The home was cordoned off for a crime scene investigation during the evening.
The woman’s next of kin have been notified.
Woman dead after shooting at pub in England
A woman has died after a shooting that occurred on Saturday evening at a pub near Liverpool, TT writes.
The police were alerted shortly before midnight local time. Many young people are said to have been in the pub and several people are said to have been injured. Among other things, a woman who was taken together with three men to hospital, where she later died.
– The investigation is at a very early stage and we understand that this is a truly shocking and devastating event that has happened just before Christmas Day, says Detective Inspector Dave McCaughrean.
According to the police, the suspected shooter may have left the scene in a dark car.
China stops reporting daily covid cases
The daily updates of the number of confirmed covid cases cease in China, the country’s national health commission has decided, writes TT.
“Relevant covid information will be published by the Chinese public health authority,” the NHC writes in a statement according to Reuters.
No explanation is given for the change or details of how often the public health authority will update its information. Since the start of the pandemic, the authorities have daily reported the number of infected people in China.
China’s strict zero-covid policy was abruptly abandoned in early December, and in recent days there have been reports of a record spread of covid-19 in the country.
Norwegian food tastes the worst
Norwegian food comes last when the newspaper Taste atlas readers got to vote for the best kitchens in the world. At the top we find the Italian, Greek and Spanish cuisines.
Sweden ends up in 65th place, but at the very bottom in 95th place is Norwegian cuisine, which obviously did not impress the newspaper’s readers.
The best of the Nordic countries is Denmark, which ended up in 35th place.
Buyers of solar cells may miss out on deductions
Installing your own solar cells has become popular, but this has led to long delivery times. Therefore, many private individuals have paid in advance, it reports Swedens radio.
Anyone who has purchased a solar cell installation can make a so-called green deduction and receive a tax reduction of 15 percent for labor costs and materials, up to SEK 50,000.
But in order to be able to get it, the work needs to be done before the turn of the year, something that can be difficult for many because of the high pressure that has been on solar cells.
– If you have paid anything in 2022, the facility must be completed this year or perhaps by the end of January at the latest in order for you to be able to get a tax reduction at all, says Pia Blank Thörnroos, a lawyer at the Swedish Tax Agency to Ekot.
Heavy apartment fire in Tyresö
A heavy fire broke out in an apartment in Bollmora in Tyresö southeast of Stockholm late on Christmas Eve.
– It was an explosive fire. We have brought technicians there to investigate what may have burned, says Sylvia Oldin, duty officer at the police.
Callers raised the alarm about flames shooting out of the apartment at 10.47pm on Christmas Eve. Sylvia Oldin says the fire was quickly extinguished and no one was injured
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The death toll rises in the wake of the “bomb cyclone”.
At least 28 people have had to take their lives in the harsh weather that is currently paralyzing the United States, it writes Sky News
At the same time, nearly 400,000 households are still without power and the harsh weather looks set to continue.
Here you can read more about the “bomb cyclone”
Pope condemns “hunger for wealth and power”
The Pope condemned man’s hunger for wealth and power during his sermon in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome on Christmas Eve, it writes BBC.
Although he did not specifically mention the war in Ukraine, observers believe he meant that conflict with his statement.
– While animals eat in their stables, men and women in our world eat even their neighbors, mothers and sisters because of their hunger for wealth and power, he said in his sermon.
Former foreign minister deceased
The Italian politician Franco Frattini has died after being treated in hospital for cancer, reports the news agency Ansa. He was foreign minister in Silvio Berlusconi’s governments 2002–2004 and 2008–2011.
He also ran for the post of Secretary General of NATO, a post that went to former Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg.
Franco Frattini turned 65.
Abolishes the death penalty
Zambia is abolishing the death penalty, something that President Hakainde Hichilema had as an election promise when he was elected president in 2021.
They also remove the ban on criticizing the country’s leaders. Both laws have existed since Zambia was a British colony.
According to the opposition, however, a constitutional amendment and a referendum are still required to be sure that the death penalty disappears completely.
But according to human rights activist Brebner Changala, the decisions that have now been made are “a major milestone” in the work to remove colonial laws that do not fit into today’s democratic Zambia.
E6 shut down after series crash
At least three cars have collided on the E6 at the height of Frillesås, writes GP.
The road is closed in both directions.
According to the emergency services, there is a lot of debris on the road.
At this time, it does not appear that anyone was physically injured.
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