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Villa on fire in Ängelholm: “Totally engulfed”
today at 23.34 Annica Ögren
Police, emergency services and ambulance services have been alerted to a fire in a villa in Ängelholm, after a caller saw heavy smoke coming from the property.
– When we arrived at the scene, the property was completely engulfed in flames, says Tobias Aldgård, officer on duty at the Skåne Nordväst rescue service.
It is still too hot to enter the building and the fire service will let the villa burn down.
There are no reports of injuries.
– There is daily activity in the property, so there should not have been any people there, from what we have received information about, says Tobias Aldgård.
The rescue service estimates that the extinguishing work will be completed around 02.00.
The alarm came in at 10:47 p.m.
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Belarus opposition leader sentenced to 15 years in prison
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya. Photo: Bernd von Jutrczenka/AP
Opposition leader Svetlana Tichanovskaya has today been sentenced to 15 years in prison in her absence, Reuters reports.
The sentence comes from a court in Minsk, which believes that Svetlana Tichanovskaja was guilty of treason and “conspiracy to seize power”, a sentence which, according to her, is a punishment for her efforts to promote democracy in the country.
It was in 2020 that Svetlana Tichanovskaya ran in the Belarusian presidential election against Aleksandr Lukashenko.
Tikhanovskaya was considered to have won the election, but instead Lukashenko was named president and the next day Tikhanovskaya was forced to flee the country.
Since then she lives in exile.
Man shot in Stockholm
Police action at the scene. Photo: AFTONBLADET
A man has been shot on Kungsholmen in Stockholm.
He has now been taken to hospital by ambulance.
The police are looking for one or more perpetrators.
Read more here.
Equal flamingos play best
Flamingos preferably with like-minded people. Photo: Wilfredo Lee/AP
It becomes a like-minded friend if the flamingo himself gets to choose.
When researchers took a closer look at the pink bird, it turns out that it turns to those with a similar personality, TT reports.
Flamingos hang out in smaller groups of friends, where more aggressive birds seek each other out and those of a more submissive nature spend more time together.
The researchers, whose results are published in Scientific Reports, saw that the more aggressive individuals often got into fights with each other and spent more time trying to dominate each other.
Zelensky fires several in the security service
Clears the joints. Photo: Efrem Lukatsky/AP
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has fired several high-ranking employees of the Ukrainian security service. This is reported by the Ukrainian TV channel TCH.
In total, it will be about five employees with high positions, including the deputy head of the Security Service of Ukraine, the head of the department in charge of financial support to the security service and the head of the security service of the Zaporizhzhya region.
Zelenskyi has also appointed two people as replacements.
According to TCH, the dismissals are part of the “great purge” within the Ukrainian state structure that affects the security services as well as state customs officials, the Ministry of Defense, state tax authorities and the police.
Car caught fire while driving
A passenger car caught fire while driving on a county road in Eskilstuna.
There are no reports of anyone being injured.
Emergency services and police are on the scene.
At 5:52 p.m., the car was turned off and traffic was allowed on.
There are no suspicions of crime.
The alarm came in at 5:09 p.m.
Explosion in residential building
Early this morning something exploded in a residential building in Valbo in Gävle.
No one was injured, but windows have been broken and there is shrapnel damage on facades, according to the police.
– Something has detonated and during the day we have done a technical examination of the scene, talked to witnesses and knocked on doors in the area, says Pelle Vamstad, at the police command center.
The alarm was received by the police at 06.45 when a guard raised the alarm.
The police have launched an investigation into violations of the Act on Flammable and Explosive Goods and unlawful threats.
One to hospital after fight
The police have been alerted to an ongoing fight in Vasaparken in Norrköping.
A man, who was injured in the fight, has been taken to hospital by ambulance.
The crime scene has been cordoned off and a man in his 30s has been arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault.
Several dead after landslide
About ten people have died after a landslide on the Indonesian island of Serasan in the South China Sea, several news agencies report.
Several buildings have been destroyed and around 50 people are still missing.
– Many people who need help have not been able to be reached because we still have difficulty getting to the affected areas, says Abdul Mahari, spokesperson for Indonesia’s state emergency agency.
Normally it takes about five hours to reach the islands by boat, due to the weather it is taking longer now.
No investigation into work environment violations after Löfving’s death
Prosecutors have decided not to initiate a preliminary investigation into work environment violations in connection with the death of police chief Mats Löving in February.
– In order for a preliminary investigation to be initiated, there must be reason to assume that a crime that falls under general prosecution has occurred, says Per Nichols, chief prosecutor at the Special Prosecutor’s Chamber in a press release.
Nichols says, among other things, that there were not enough circumstances to suggest a crime.
– Which in itself is of course an extremely tragic event, he says.
Apartment fired upon – two arrested
Two men, aged 35 and 50 respectively, have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a shooting in Örebro, TT reports.
It was on Sunday evening that the police were alerted to loud bangs in a residential area. On the spot, it was found that an apartment had been shelled. No one was injured in the shooting.
Man arrested for attempted murder
Police and an ambulance were called to an apartment in Gothenburg because a man in his 50s had been stabbed.
The suspected perpetrator, also in his 50s, fled the scene but was later arrested.
The injured man is said to have been stabbed in the leg. The police are investigating the incident as attempted murder.
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