Rescued drowning person in ice vac: “Heroic effort”

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  • Rescued drowning person in ice vac: “Heroic effort”

    Rescued drowning person in ice vac: “Heroic effort”

    A person was about to drown when it ended up in a lake at Yxnerum outside Åtvidaberg on Monday.

    Passers-by saw the person in the water, called SOS and helped the drowned person out of the ice wake.

    Before the emergency services were on the scene, the person had come up.

    – Before we were there, they had got the person up, so these people made a heroic effort, says Pia-Maria Nautras, the emergency services’ alarm and command officer.

    The person is taken to hospital. The extent of the damage is unclear.

  • Bullet holes discovered at a restaurant in Malmö

    Bullet holes discovered at a restaurant in Malmö

    Several police patrols are on site at Limhamn in Malmö to investigate a possible shooting.

    The police were alerted at lunchtime about damage to a window, and the police are investigating whether it could be a hole from a shot that was fired. The damage is not believed to have occurred recently, but to have occurred earlier.

    – It is suspected to be bullet holes, but we cannot confirm that this is what it is about, says police spokesperson Filip Annas.

    The police are working with technicians and special search dogs in the area. They are also questioning nearby residents to find out what happened.

  • Ale broke the first ice for this year

    Icebreaker Ale. Photo: Maritime Administration

    Ale broke the first ice for this year

    The season for the icebreakers has started.

    On January 4, the first icebreaker moved out. The ship Ale was sent out from Luleå harbor to provide assistance to the ship HIIUMA from Kalix.

    – We have been preparing for a long time. The season starts a month later than last season. The icebreakers and their crews are ready to assist merchant shipping around the clock from now until May next year, when we can usually round off the season, says Amund Lindberg, head of winter shipping and icebreaking at the Swedish Maritime Administration in a press release.

    With cold weather in sight, Ale will soon be joined by the ships Atle and Frej.

  • Train stop in Alingsås after collision

    Train stop in Alingsås after collision

    Some form of collision has occurred in the train traffic outside Alingsås, GP writes.

    – It is a train driver who calls in and says that he or she has collided with something, unclear what, says police spokesperson Jens Andersson to the newspaper.

    The police and emergency services are said to have been called to the scene.

  • Damaged Baltic Sea cables repaired

    The oil tanker Eagle S is suspected of being behind the damage to the data cables between Estonia and Finland. The picture of the ship was taken on Boxing Day by the Finnish Coast Guard. Photo: Rajavartiosto via AP/TT

    Damaged Baltic Sea cables repaired

    The two data cables between Finland and Estonia that were damaged on Christmas Day have now been repaired, reports Hufvudstadsbladet.

    Repairing the two cables took longer than expected due to severe weather, according to the operator, who also writes that the damaged cables did not affect the company’s service in either Estonia or Finland.

    The data cables were damaged on Christmas Day in what is now being investigated as gross sabotage. The suspicion is that the ship Eagle S dragged its anchor behind it for tens of kilometers and thus damaged the cables.

  • Person arrested at Arlanda – presented a false passport

    Person arrested at Arlanda – presented a false passport

    One person was arrested on the morning of the 13th at Arlanda, the police write on their website.

    The reason is that the person presented a fake passport.

    The police have written a report about the use of a false document.

  • Biden bans oil drilling – defeat for Trump

    Photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP

    Biden bans oil drilling – defeat for Trump

    US President Joe Biden has banned new oil and gas extraction along most of the US coast, reports NBC News.

    The decision halts extraction over 625 million hectares of ocean along the Atlantic coast, the Pacific coast, the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Bering Sea. According to Biden, oil drilling in these areas would cause irreversible damage and is unnecessary to meet the country’s energy needs.

    The ban is seen as a victory for US environmental groups and could hamper President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to increase oil and gas production.

  • Chilled woman found under a car – the police are investigating aggravated rape

    Chilled woman found under a car – the police are investigating aggravated rape

    The police are investigating a serious rape after a woman in her 50s was found severely chilled under a car in Köping on Sunday morning.

    It was witnesses who alerted the police after they found the woman outdoors in a parking lot in a residential area.

  • Another death after the terrorist attack in Germany

    Another death after the terrorist attack in Germany

    A sixth person has died in hospital after the terrorist attack on the Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg on December 20, writes Dagbladet.

    Five people died in the attack in which a car plowed through the Christmas market at high speed. 200 people were injured.

  • Fully developed fire in apartment building

    Fully developed fire in apartment building

    The attic of a multi-family house in Tunabackar in northern Uppsala is on fire.

    – It is a fully developed fire that is not under control. We are trying to prevent spreading in the property, says Ludvig Sääf, commanding officer at the rescue service.

    The emergency services were called to the address at 04.25 and have several units on site. The fire is said to have started on a balcony and then spread to the roof.

    All apartments in the three-storey building have been evacuated.

    – 30 people have been evacuated to a nearby school, says line operator Ulf Tholén.

    No one has been injured.

    At 08:00, the emergency services announce that they have limited the fire to the roof, which will be allowed to burn down under controlled conditions.

    A preliminary forecast for the extinguishing work is at 12 o’clock.

  • Sources: Trudeau expected to announce resignation

    Justin Trudeau. Archive image. Photo: Spencer Colby/AP/TT

    Sources: Trudeau expected to announce resignation

    Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to announce his resignation this week as a result of internal opposition within his own party, sources told The Globe and Mail, among others.

    The announcement could come as early as Monday, according to the sources. Whether he will remain until a replacement has been appointed is unclear.

    In December, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, one of Trudeau’s closest confidants, resigned. She herself stated that the resignation was her only “honest and possible” choice after Trudeau offered her another portfolio in the government.

    Trudeau’s popularity has declined significantly in recent months. His government recently narrowly avoided a series of no-confidence votes and critics have called for his resignation.

  • Doctors missed cancer – criticized

    Doctors missed cancer – criticized

    At the end of 2019, a Stockholm doctor performed a colonoscopy on a patient. Changes in the intestine were detected but the examination was interrupted, according to the doctor, because of “unclean intestine”.

    The routine is in such a state that a new examination is booked immediately. Despite that, it took six months before a new investigation was carried out. Then disseminated bowel cancer was discovered.

    The Inspectorate for Care and Care (Ivo) is now criticizing the doctor for the delayed cancer diagnosis, writes Nacka Värmdö-Posten. The doctor is criticized for not taking samples even though changes were detected. According to the senior doctor whom Ivo hired for assessment, samples should have been taken during the first examination.

  • Alarm of explosions – large police effort

    Alarm of explosions – large police effort

    During the night to Monday, the police have a large operation outside Bälinge in Uppsala municipality.

    – We received an alarm about explosions at 22.50. We are investigating a serious crime. There are no injuries and the public need not be worried, says Alexander Byquist, commander at the police’s regional command center.

    No criminal classification has been established so far. The police still had an ongoing operation in the area at 02:00.

  • Man robbed and stabbed

    Man robbed and stabbed

    A 45-year-old man was robbed and stabbed in Brandbergen, south of Stockholm, on Sunday evening. He was found bleeding in a residential area shortly before 8 p.m. and told the police that the crime had occurred two hours earlier.

    The man was taken to hospital, but escaped without serious injuries.

    – He says that he was jumped by several unknown perpetrators and that they took his jacket and mobile phone. We have no suspects, says Dan Andersson, on-call preliminary investigation manager at the police.

    The incident is being investigated as aggravated assault and aggravated robbery.

  • Fish sold for an unimaginable amount of money

    Do you think 14.5 million is a lot for a tuna? However, the value in Swedish kronor is nothing compared to what the Japanese had to pay: 207 million yen. Photo: AP

    Fish sold for an unimaginable amount of money

    A bluefin tuna was sold on Sunday morning in Tokyo for the equivalent of SEK 14.5 million.

    The beast weighed 276 kilos and went under the hammer at the Toyosu fish market. That the first catch of the year is sold for large sums is nothing unusual, but the giant fish belongs to the record sales of all time, reports the Washington Post.

    The fish was bought by the sushi chain Onodera, which is included in the Michelin Guide.

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