Over 6,000 prisoners escaped from security prison

Fully developed fire in apartment building – several evacuated

There is a fire in an apartment building in Vara municipality.

The emergency services were called to the scene at 5:30 p.m.

– There is a heavy fire in the entire property, which is an area of ​​around 800 square metres, says Simon Rosén at the rescue service.

The fire has spread to at least four stairwells.

– When we received calls about the fire, people were still in the building. We have evacuated many people, but we do not know how many, nor do we know if there are people still in the building.

Woman dead after car accident

A woman has died after she was hit by a car in Köping.

When the police arrived at the scene, the driver had left.

The woman was taken to hospital by ambulance. But her life could not be saved.

Relatives have been notified.

A short distance from the accident scene, the patrol found the car involved and the driver, who is a man in his 30s.

He has been arrested on suspicion of grossly causing the death of another, gross negligence in traffic, drugged driving and illegally leaving the scene of a traffic accident.

The EU proposes new sanctions against the Russian shadow fleet

EU foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas praises Finland’s actions after the suspected cable sabotage in the Gulf of Finland.

At the same time, she proposes new sanctions against the Russian shadow fleet

“We strongly condemn any deliberate destruction of Europe’s critical infrastructure. The suspect vessel is part of Russia’s shadow fleet, which threatens security and the environment, while funding Russia’s war budget,” she said in a statement, continuing:

“We will propose further measures, including sanctions, to target this fleet.”

Was stopped on E6 after accident

A passenger car was involved in a single-vehicle accident on the E6 at the height of Tanum.

The emergency services were called to the scene.

It is unclear if anyone is injured.

The road was closed for a time, but is now open to traffic again.

Thousands of dead this year on the boat route to the Canary Islands

More than 10,000 people have died in the past year trying to reach the Canary Islands, according to the Spanish volunteer organization Caminando Fronteras.

The dead are migrants who traveled by boat from mainly West African Mauritania.

The organization counts 10,457 dead up to December 15, and states that the number of dead has risen by almost 60 percent compared to 2023.

Among the dead in 2024 are roughly 1,500 children and 421 women. April and May were the two months with the highest number of deaths.

WHO chief hit by Israeli attack in Yemen

Israel has carried out several airstrikes against targets in Yemen, several media reports.

The attacks have been carried out against the airport in the capital Sanaa, a military base and a power plant in the port city of Hodeida.

The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, was at Sanaa’s airport when the attack took place writes the BBC.

– When we were about to board our flight from Sanaa, the airport came under aerial bombardment, he says.

He says one of the plane’s crew members was injured.

At least two people are said to have died in the attack.

Israel confirms it has carried out the attacks.

“These infrastructures were used by the Huthi terrorist regime to transfer Iranian weapons to the region and for the entry of senior Iranian officials,” the IDF said in a statement.

On Wednesday, the Houthi movement fired a ballistic robot and two drones at Israel, and on Saturday, 16 people in Tel Aviv were injured by a robot in another attack by the Houthi movement.

The incident took place at a reception in the region where the patient went to get vaccinated. Due to, among other things, high patient pressure, the routines were not followed correctly and the patient was vaccinated with the same needle as the previous patient.

The incident has been reported to the Health and Care Inspectorate according to lex Maria.

The person did not suffer any infection after the incident.

Region Västerbotten writes in a press release that they have investigated the case and developed measures to reduce the risk of repetition, and that they reported the incident to IVO, writes SVT.

Missing boy in Kalmar found

The 16-year-old boy who went missing in Kalmar has now been found.

Moscow airports closed – drone threat

All four major airports in Moscow have been temporarily closed and all air traffic has been suspended, Russian media reports.

The stop is being imposed due to drone threats from Ukraine.

Serious bus accident in Norway – disaster alert issued

A serious bus accident has occurred on E10 in Norwegian Hadsel, reports VG.

The rescue service states that many people are involved in the accident.

Nordlandshospital has announced a disaster alert, reports NRK.

Government sources: Russia shot down the plane

38 people were killed when the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crashed in Kazakhstan.

Now Azerbaijani government sources state for Euronews that a Russian robot shot down the plane.

The robot is said to have been fired from a Pantsir-S air defense system.

According to the sources, the pilots must have asked to make an emergency landing at Russian airports, but were refused and ordered to fly over the Caspian Sea towards Aktau in Kazakhstan.

One arrested for murder in Ystad

A man in his 30s has been arrested on suspicion of murder in Ystad, the police write on their website.

Interrogations have been conducted and new interviews will be held with the suspect.

It was on Christmas Day that the police were called to a residence where they found a lifeless woman in her 20s.

Three new cables destroyed between Estonia and Finland

In addition to the electricity cable that was cut between Estonia and Finland, three damaged communication cables have now also been discovered in the Gulf of Finland.

This is reported by Estonia’s state media company Eesti Rahvusringhäsling.

“At the moment, the cause of the outages is unknown, the owners of the cables are working to fix them,” says Laura Laaster, spokeswoman for the Ministry of Economy and Communications.

The cables are owned by the telecommunications companies Elisa Eesti and CITIC Telecom.

The crimes are said to have had no noticeable effect on users, and all communication between Estonia and Finland is still working.

Boy bitten by dog ​​- taken to hospital

A dog has bitten a 10-year-old boy, the police write.

The boy was on his way to a grocery store in western Stockholm when a dog bit him on the arm. The boy received a wound in the arm and has gone by ambulance to the hospital.

The dog owner and the dog left the scene. Later in the day, the dog’s owner contacted the police.

The police have drawn up a report regarding causing bodily harm.