Actor Treat Williams has died in a traffic accident while riding his motorcycle on a road in Vermont on Monday.
This is stated by his agent Barry McPherson for People magazine.
– He was killed during the afternoon. He was about to turn and a car ran into him, he says.
The emergency services in the area confirm the incident, but have not released the identity of the deceased.
Williams broke through in the film “Hair” in 1979. He has appeared in a number of Hollywood films and television series.
Treat Williams turned 71.
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A heavy fire rages in the Rönnskärsverken in Skelleftehamn.
The alarm came in at 2:25 a.m. and an Important Public Notice (VMA) has been issued warning of toxic smoke and asking the public to go indoors and close doors, windows and ventilation.
– This could probably develop into a serious fire, says David Levy, officer on duty at police region North.
No one should be injured according to early information.
– It must burn with open flames and the rescue service has several resources that are on their way. There is probably no risk of it spreading to buildings considering that it is in the harbor out in the water, but there is heavy smoke development, says David Levy.
Rönnskärsverken in Skelleftehamn is located in Skellefteå municipality and is Sweden’s only smelter for the production of base metals, and works with the recycling of electronic scrap. (TT)
A teacher in Jämtland has been sentenced to six months in prison for serious child pornography offences.
The teacher was charged in May 2022 with possession and offensive photography after the police found thousands of files with gross child pornography material, writes Länstidningen Östersund.
The man, who was active as a teacher, is now convicted of serious child pornography offences, dissemination of the material and offensive photography.
The crimes did not take place in a school environment and the man is no longer employed by the school. (TT)
The head of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Rafael Grossi, is traveling to Ukraine to review safety at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant following last week’s dam collapse.
“En route to Ukraine to meet President Zelensky and present an aid program in the aftermath of the catastrophic flood,” writes Grossi on Twitter.
The IAEA is to strengthen its expert team that oversees safety at the nuclear power plant, he adds. (TT)
The Philippines’ most active volcano, Mayon, has erupted.
Already on Thursday, the warning level was raised to three out of five, which means that the volcano’s activity is worrying.
During the night of Monday, the volcano began spewing lava, prompting authorities to evacuate nearly 13,000 people living within a radius of six kilometers, writes CNN.
Mayon is located on the country’s largest island, Luzon, around 330 kilometers southeast of Manila.
There are 24 active volcanoes in the Philippines. The most recent eruption occurred in 2018.
A 54-year-old man from Missouri, USA, has died of flesh-eating bacteria, reports BNO News.
The man contracted the bacteria from raw oysters he bought at a local store.
According to the Ministry of Health in St. Louis the man was infected by Vibrio vulnificus, a flesh-eating bacteria that can be found in oysters and other shellfish
“There is no evidence that the store did anything to poison the oysters, which were probably already contaminated when they arrived,” the health ministry said in a statement.
The reason for where the oysters come from is still being investigated.
At 20.02, the police were alerted to Södermalm in Stockholm about a serious assault, the police write.
The man said he felt dizzy and had a head injury.
Three suspected perpetrators were arrested at Zinkensdamm subway station following information received by the police.
The man was taken to hospital by the police.
May 2023 qualifies for shared second place as the warmest month of May globally ever, writes TT.
Only May 2020 was hotter.
However, the surface temperature of the world’s oceans was the highest ever recorded.
The highest temperature of the month was measured in African Chad, where it was 47.8 degrees on May 25.
In Europe, the highest temperature was recorded in Coin on May 9 at 37.9 degrees.
Residents of the Netherlands will be offered free sunscreen this summer in an effort to reduce the country’s record number of skin cancer cases, reports the Guardian.
Sunscreen containers will be available at schools, universities, festivals, parks and other public places across the country.
According to the paper, it was a dermatologist who came up with the idea after being inspired by hand sanitizer containers during the pandemic.
A tractor has reversed and fallen into a silo in Alver municipality in western Norway, writes VG.
– It was a fall of five to six metres. One person and a child were in the tractor, says operations leader Tom Johannesen to VG.
The incident must have taken place in connection with the emptying of grass. The tractor must have then fallen over an edge.
“It does not appear that anyone is seriously injured, but both people have been taken to hospital,” writes the Norwegian police on Twitter.
Photo: Peter Schwartz
A person has been found dead in the water in central Stockholm.
The person has not yet been identified.
The police state that they do not know how long the body was in the water.
At 19.14 the police are called to a playground in Malmö.
A man in his 20s and a man in his 25s have been taken to hospital with injuries that indicate a sharp knife was used.
– We are on site and knocking on doors for witness information to the incident, says police officer Syd.
At this time, no one is a suspect. The crime classification is assault.
At 17.15 the police are alerted to a fire in a residential building in Skutskär.
– There must have been a fire on an attic floor in an apartment building. Two people have been taken to hospital, one with burns, says SOS Alarm.
The site is cordoned off and the police will carry out a technical investigation.
At 19.10 the fire was extinguished and the emergency services could leave the scene.
At 18.23 the police are alerted to a fire in a villa in Skara.
– The villa must be completely engulfed in flames, the emergency services are working to limit the spread, says Peter Adlersson at the police.
The residents must be evacuated. No information on casualties.
Shortly after 5 p.m., the police were alerted to a fight in a grocery store in the Hyllie district in Malmö.
One person had to be taken to hospital by ambulance.
The police are currently investigating the incident as attempted murder.
A man in his 20s has been arrested, the police state on their website.
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