Police action – suspected serious crime

Swedish Nobel laureate Bengt Samuelsson is dead, his relatives confirm to Aftonbladet. He lived to be 90 years old.

He died on Sunday after a long illness.

In 1982, Bengt Samuelsson received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Sune Bergström and the Briton John R. Vane – for discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related substances.

He has also been rector of Karolinska Institutet.

The fire in Västerås. Photo: Reader image

There is a fire in the terrain at Erikslund in Västerås, near a shopping centre.

The alarm came in shortly before 8 p.m.

For a while there was a high risk of spreading, but by 9 p.m. the fire was under control.

– The emergency services have set a forecast of a few hours, says the police officer on duty.

There are no reports of any injuries.

At 8 p.m., polling stations closed in the second round of the French parliamentary elections.

According to the polling station survey, the left-wing alliance NFP is the largest.

No group seems to get an absolute majority.

At 5 p.m., voter turnout was close to 60 percent – ​​the highest in 43 years, according to France24.

The political situation is tense, and many fear violence during the evening. 30,000 extra police officers have been called into the country.

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The police were alerted on Sunday evening about a fight outside in Norrköping.

– According to the alarm, there were about 20 people in a fight belonging to two equal groups. When we arrived at the scene, there were eight people left, says police spokesperson Rasmus Borgström.

– Two people were injured, one was taken to hospital by ambulance.

The extent of the damage is unclear.

The whole thing is currently classified as assault and serious assault. The police are looking for suspects.

The rescue service responded to a drowning alarm in Årjäng in Värmland at around 5:30 p.m.

– You have seen two people who have been fishing who have fallen into the water, says a team leader at SOS Alarm who is responsible for the rescue region Bergslagen, to NWT.

At 18.20, both people had been picked up from the water. The extent of the damage is unclear.

– One of them was hypothermic, says the officer on duty at the police in the Bergslagen region.

One person to hospital after a fire on Södermalm in Stockholm. Photo: Blåljus Sthlm

A major effort is underway at Södermalm in central Stockholm.

There is a fire in an apartment building. Police, ambulance and emergency services were alerted to the development of smoke shortly after 5 p.m.

– Several people are slightly injured, one person has been taken by ambulance to hospital, also slightly injured, says the police officer on duty.

A man in his 20s has been taken to hospital by ambulance after a motorcycle accident in Öjaby in Växjö.

The police and ambulance were dispatched at 4:30 p.m. following an alarm that the motorcycle driver had driven off the road.

The extent of the damage is unclear.

Several businesses in Paris have set up window coverings ahead of the election. Photo: Thomas Padilla/AP/TT

Armed police patrol in groups in Paris – over thousands of extra officers have been called in. Several voters tell TT that they fear violence in the wake of the polarized French election.

In Paris, police officers walk in groups of three or four with their weapons visible. People on the streets shout different variations of “voter”, a call to vote, according to TT’s broadcaster.

According to French newspapers, several shops in the inner city have installed wooden boards to protect their shop windows for fear of riots when the election results are announced on Sunday evening.

— I hope that hate does not win. They will set fire to everything if the RN wins, says a man in his 60s outside a polling station in the capital’s ninth district.

The 75-year-old man who had gone missing in Hudiksvall has been found dead, the police write on their website.

The man disappeared from a nursing home on Saturday afternoon. A large search effort was launched with, among others, the Home Guard.

Police suspect no crime in connection with the death. Next of kin have been notified.

Panic and riots broke out during the Rath Yatra festival in the city of Puri in India.

400 people are reported to have been injured and one person is said to be dead.

A car is on fire in Norrtull tunnel, Norra länken in the direction of Södertälje. This is what the Swedish Transport Administration writes on its website.

According to Bengt Olsson, press manager at the Swedish Transport Administration, the tunnel is closed and will be until approximately 6:30 p.m.

Several people were shot during a party in the city of Detroit in the United States, writes American media.

Two people are said to have died and eighteen have been injured, several of them seriously, writes a local news channel.

The police tell the channel that the shooter, a 22-year-old man, was himself shot in the leg and is being treated in hospital. He is not considered to be seriously injured.

The police confirm that several of the victims are undergoing surgery for their injuries.

Last Thursday, a 23-year-old man was shot dead with several shots in Strömmensberg writes. A teenage boy was arrested by the police a few hours later.

Now he has been requested to be detained after the shooting death writes The Gothenburg Post.

Russian forces have captured yet another village in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, Russia’s Ministry of Defense says. This applies to the village of Chigari, which was “liberated” according to the Russian statement.

The day before, Russia announced that another village in the area had been captured.

This year, Russia has made a series of minor advances in the Donetsk region, starting in Avdijivka in February. However, neither Russia nor Ukraine has made any major breakthroughs and is considered to have been stuck in an attrition phase in the war.

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