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One person dead after apartment fire in Gislaved
The police and emergency services were alerted to a fire in an apartment outside Gislaved at around 8.30pm on Friday.
A seriously injured person was found in the residence and has died as a result of the injuries, the police report on Saturday morning.
“Emergency services on site have announced that it is a fully developed fire and that smoke divers are needed,” the police wrote on their website on Friday.
The police must carry out a technical examination of the home.
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Rescued from landslides after 11 days
Rescue workers in Turkey have managed to free at least three people who were trapped under collapsed houses for over 11 days, reports the BBC.
– I had lost all hope. This is a true miracle, says the father of a 34-year-old man who was found alive.
On Friday, the man was reunited with his wife and newborn child at a hospital in the city of Mersin.
A teenager and a man in his 40s were also rescued from the crowds after the strong earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria on Monday, February 6.
Thousands of Wagner soldiers killed
The US estimates that more than 30,000 people from the Wagner paramilitary group have been injured or killed since Russia launched the war of aggression in Ukraine.
This is reported by TT and refers to CNN.
Of them, around 9,000 have been killed, according to the estimate.
According to John Kirby, a spokesman for the US National Security Council, around half of them have been killed since mid-December.
– They treat their recruits, mostly convicts, basically like cannon fodder, says Kirby.
Attempted murder in Sollentuna – a woman arrested
During the night of Saturday, the police were alerted to a disturbance in a residence. A woman has stabbed another woman, according to the police.
The knife-cut person was taken to hospital by ambulance.
– The woman was awake and able to speak before going to the hospital, but I don’t know what the damage looks like now. It happened in a residence with several people, says Carina Skagerlind, police spokesperson.
One person is arrested.
The home is cordoned off and a preliminary investigation into attempted murder has been launched.
Two dead in traffic accident with bus in Kumla
On Friday evening at 9:16 p.m., the police and emergency services were alerted to a serious traffic accident on national highway 52 south of Kumla. A bus and a car collided and caught fire.
Shortly after 05:00 on Saturday, the police announce that two people have died in the accident. The two deceased were drivers of the two vehicles.
Only the bus driver was on board at the time of the accident. The vehicles must have collided “very strongly”, according to the police.
– It is difficult to describe such a collision. It’s about two burned out wrecks now. Those driving the vehicles were killed instantly. We had a little trouble getting there because of the heat, says police spokesperson Jan Matern.
One vehicle was a biogas bus – there were explosions in pressure tanks and tires. The fire was extinguished at 11.30 pm.
The vehicles will be impounded for technical examination.
– We have started a preliminary investigation regarding negligence in traffic and causing the death of another has been started to clarify the course of events.
More are feared dead after Cyclone Gabrielle
Nine people have been confirmed dead after Cyclone Gabrielle swept through New Zealand earlier this week. A tenth death is being investigated if it was caused by the hurricane.
Several thousand people are listed as unreachable and police fear that up to ten additional people may have died, the New Zealand Herald reports.
Electricity and fresh water are slowly coming back to the hurricane affected parts of the country. But entire communities are still completely cut off, major highways are closed and the telecommunications network unreliable.
The authorities hope during Saturday to be able to reach most of the communities that have so far been isolated. (TT)
Kim took her daughter to a soccer match
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has shown off his daughter again. This time when his father, the former, now deceased leader, Kim Jong-Il was celebrated.
On Saturday, Kim Ju-Ae, who is believed to be in her 10s, sat next to her father in the seat of honor as representatives from the government and the Ministry of Defense met in a soccer match. The match was played as part of the celebration of Kim Jong-Il’s birthday.
Kim Ju-Ae has made several public appearances in a short period of time and speculation is now rife that she is being groomed to become the heir to the Kim dynasty. (TT)
Thousands of Wagner soldiers killed
The United States estimates that more than 30,000 people from the Wagner paramilitary group have been injured or killed since Russia launched the war of aggression in Ukraine, CNN reports. Of them, around 9,000 have been killed, according to the estimate.
According to John Kirby, a spokesman for the US National Security Council, around half of the 9,000 have been killed since mid-December.
– They treat their recruits, mostly convicts, basically as cannon fodder, says Kirby. (TT)
Man found shot in Trelleborg
A man has been found with a gunshot wound on Nygatan in Trelleborg.
The alarm came to the police shortly before 11 p.m.
The police have cordoned off a large area around the crime scene.
Weapons dog is summoned.
Bus and car on fire – road closed
At 9.16 p.m. there was an alarm about a serious traffic accident on national highway 52 south of Kumla.
A bus and a car are on the road and are burning violently.
The rescue service is on site with five units. Ambulance and police also participate in the operation.
– It is explosions from the vehicles that make it difficult to go forward right now. It’s pressure tanks and tires that explode, says police spokesperson Lars Hedelin to TT.
The road has been closed completely, and the Swedish Transport Administration expects that there will be a very large traffic impact at the site until seven o’clock on Saturday morning.
Update 23:30: The fire is out.
According to the police, it is a biogas bus and a car that collided “very strongly”.
The bus belongs to Svealandstrafiken and must have been on its way to its depot. Only the bus driver should have been on board at the time of the accident.
Shots were fired at houses
A shooting occurred in downtown Avesta on Friday afternoon.
According to the police, a property was fired upon.
The police are investigating the incident as attempted murder and aggravated weapons offences.
They have cordoned off the area.
No one was injured in the incident.
A person seriously injured in an apartment fire
There is a fire in an apartment in Gislaved.
The police, emergency services and ambulance were called at around 8.30pm.
“Emergency services on site have announced that it is a fully developed fire and that smoke divers are needed,” the police write on their website.
A person has been found in the apartment. The person must be very seriously injured.
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Did Otto pass by completely unnoticed? Because everything about the storm seems removed
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Hello! Yes, it probably wasn’t as bad as feared, but some are without power and the train service has not started for a while. What the storm has done will probably show more when people start to wake up. We have a new article in the works, so far the night is summed up in this one.
What kind of wind forces are we talking about with storm Otto? If houses are at risk of collapsing, for example in Copenhagen. Haven’t seen any information about it.
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From Trelleborg and north up past Gothenburg, storm surges of between 27 and 31 meters per second were expected along the coast, we reported more about that here yesterday. The limit for the hurricane is 33 meters per second.
As for the buildings in Copenhagen, they were extra sensitive to strong winds due to a construction error. You can read more about that here.
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Reftele is a community in Gislaved municipality in Jönköping county, right?
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