Latest news – Several arrested after murder spree

Several people have contracted the unusual and deadly disease botulism after weight loss procedures in Turkey, the infection control authority EDCD states in a press release.

A total of 67 people have fallen ill. This after they had botox injected into the stomach. Most of the procedures have been performed at a hospital in Istanbul, while some have been performed in Izmir.

The ECDC now advises against undergoing this type of treatment in Turkey because they believe there is an increased risk of contracting botulism. The disease is caused by a bacterial toxin which, among other things, can cause paralysis in the respiratory muscles.

Around one million Swedbank customers experienced problems with their bank accounts in April 2022. Due to IT problems, customers had difficulty transferring, receiving and viewing their money. In some cases, negative figures were shown on the customers’ accounts.

Now the big bank is forced to pay 850 million in penalty fees for its IT mistake, the Financial Supervisory Authority states in a press release.

– . What happened shows that there can be serious consequences when routines are abandoned and internal control is not maintained, says Susanna Grufman, Acting Director General, in a press release.

A child has been hit outside a school in Haninge in Stockholm.

According to witnesses, the vehicle must have been traveling at a low speed when the accident occurred.

The child is also reported to be awake and talkative.

The police and ambulance have been called to the scene.

During the night, several masked criminals broke into a home and robbed a family in Salem, south of Stockholm

The perpetrators allegedly threatened the family with weapon-like objects and stole valuables. They then fled the scene in a vehicle.

– It is unclear what type of valuables they took with them. No one in the family is said to have been physically injured during the robbery, says Mats Eriksson at the police.

The police are investigating the incident as aggravated robbery and no one has been arrested.

The charging boxes Easee Home and Easee Charge for electric cars will be banned from sale, the Swedish Electrical Safety Authority announces.

The reason is that there is no earth fault interrupter solution or DC protection that meets the requirements of the standards for which the equipment is declared.

– The manufacturer has used an electronic earth fault circuit breaker solution instead of an electromechanical one. There is a risk that the earth fault circuit breaker does not always trip when and as it should, says Joel Lee Antman, inspector at the Swedish Electrical Safety Authority.

There are approximately 100,000 installed charging boxes in these models in Sweden.

The manufacturer must now take back the charging boxes that have received sales bans from their retailers. The decision also means that the manufacturer is obliged to remedy deficiencies in already installed charging boxes.

The sexually transmitted diseases chlamydia and gonorrhea have increased sharply in recent months in Norway. This is announced by the country’s public health authority FHI.

According to the authority, it may be an effect after the pandemic, when the number of infected people was in numbers.

– From August 2022, the number of reported cases of chlamydia has been higher than in previous years. It coincides with a corresponding increase in gonorrhea among young heterosexuals, and may be due to increased social contact after the reopening of society, says senior physician Anne Olaug Olsen at FHI.

There is a fire in a villa in Uddevalla.

The alarm came in at 04:00 and when the emergency services arrived, the fire was fully developed on the upper floor of the villa.

Six units are on site and the residents are said to have made it out of the building.

A fire broke out in a villa in Degerfors during the night of Wednesday, it writes NWT.

Just before four o’clock the outside fire was extinguished and smoke divers could get down into the basement.

According to the emergency services, everyone in the villa must have got out and there is no risk of spreading.

A military officer is charged with rape, writes TT.

The man and the woman shared a room after a Christmas party and there the man assaulted the woman in a way that can be equated with rape, according to the prosecutor.

In the police report, the woman describes that she was drunk, that she only wanted to sleep and not have intercourse with the man. Even so, he forced himself on her.

The prosecution is based on web history in the man’s mobile phone, witness interviews and messages that the man sent to the woman in which he expresses regret for his behavior.

The man denies the accusations.

Honduran President Xiomara Castro has instructed the country’s foreign minister to open up official relations with China, Reuters writes.

That would mean that the country would have to cut off its official relations with Taiwan. It is a requirement from China.

In a tweet, Castro explained the decision as “a sign of my determination to pursue the government’s plan and expand the borders.”

Taiwan’s foreign ministry commented to Reuters that “they are in the process of understanding the situation”, but would not provide further details.

Should Honduras break official ties, only 13 countries remain with diplomatic ties to Taiwan.

During a speech in California on Tuesday, Joe Biden urged the US Congress to begin work on banning “assault weapons”, an American term for a certain type of semi-automatic weapon, TT writes.

– Ban them. That’s enough now. Do something, and do something big, he said.

He has also signed a presidential order to increase the number of background checks on gun buyers.

In June of last year, Joe Biden signed a new gun law that, among other things, entails tougher background checks. The law, a compromise, was the largest regulation of gun ownership in the United States at the federal level in nearly 30 years.