Tramway is closed – may become live

Woman found dead

A woman has been found dead outside in Pitea on Saturday morning. The woman’s relatives have been informed of the death.

The police cordoned off the scene and during the day carried out investigative technical measures.

There is no suspected perpetrator and no one is in custody in the case. The police write on their website that there are many indications that no crime has been committed.

30 seriously injured when ski lift collapsed

30 people are seriously injured, ten of them critically, after a chairlift collapsed in a ski resort in Spain’s Astún, reports Spanish media.

A large number of ambulances and helicopters should be on their way to the scene.

The president of Aragon, Jorge Azcón, and the minister of the interior, Roberto Bermúdez de Castro, agree local media on the way to the location.

There is currently no information on why the chair lift collapsed.

The roof of Max is on fire

There is a fire in the roof of a Max restaurant along the E6 in Strömstad.

– We have just arrived there. There is heavy smoke and the building has been evacuated, says Björn Van der Kay, alarm and line operator at the rescue service.

Shortly afterwards, the rescue service states that it is a fully developed fire where they have several resources on site. There is currently no information about the risk of spreading or what is behind the fire.

Norwegian rescue forces are assisting in the work, according to Strömstads-Tidning. It is about two rescue units.

Swedish NATO soldiers on site in Latvia

Today, Swedish soldiers and officers disembark in Riga to join NATO’s multinational brigade in Latvia.

At half past ten local time, the first Swedish soldiers disembarked in Riga in two ranks, one with the Swedish flag in front and one with the NATO flag.

– It is a historic day, a historic event, says Latvian Defense Minister Andris Spruds.

After the soldiers, rumbling combat vehicles, armored all-terrain vehicles and tanks rolled ashore from the TT Line ferry after a 24-hour journey across the Baltic Sea.

– The new thing here is that Sweden becomes part of NATO’s collective defence. Now we become a tangible part of the defense of the frontline states in the alliance, says Magnus Christiansson, researcher at the Defense Academy.

In total, it is about 550 people, a reduced battalion, which comes from the Southern Scanian Regiment, P7, in Scania.

In Latvia, under Canadian leadership, they will be part of a brigade where 14 different NATO countries are represented.

The Swedish battalion has 9040 combat vehicles, 90 grenade launcher tracked vehicles, 122 combat vehicles and 360 armored personnel carriers, as well as trucks and broadside vehicles.

Judges shot dead in Iran – one was Noury’s boss

Two judges have reportedly been shot dead at Iran’s Supreme Court in Tehran.

Both have been accused of a bloody past. One was the Swedish convict Hamid Noury’s boss in high-profile prison massacres.

An armed person allegedly entered the court building and attacked, according to hard-to-verify accounts from the Iranian judiciary’s own Mizan news agency and other state-run media. There, the perpetrator is described as a “terrorist” and he is later said to have taken his own life.

Another person is said to have been injured, according to the Iranian sources. There are currently no independent reports of the incident.

In this situation, no official Iranian picture is given of what the perpetrator in Tehran may have had as a motive. Mizan writes that he was not part of any ongoing caseShow more

Robot alarm in Israel – explosions in Jerusalem

The air raid alarm sounds in Jerusalem, where loud explosions have also been heard.

This follows an alert from the Israeli military about a drone strike from Yemen.

The Houthi movement, which is allied with Hamas, has repeatedly launched long-range drone strikes against Israel during the war, alongside regular attacks on Israeli-linked ships in the sea off Yemen.

Alarm of new explosion in Stockholm

SOS has been alerted to a new explosion in Stockholm, this time in Årsta. The alarm came in during the morning at 09.22.

The emergency services and the police have sent several units to the scene.

– A caller heard a bang in the area and we are there now assisting the police on the spot, says Fredrik Hilmersson, management operator at the rescue service.

The police have also been alerted, but at the moment cannot confirm that there has been an explosion.

Dead person found outdoors south of Stockholm

A dead person was found outdoors at 8 o’clock on Saturday morning by a passer-by south of Stockholm. The dead person was found in a residential area.

– We are on site and have blocked it off. Our technicians are investigating the incident. As it is unclear how the person died, we have opened a preliminary investigation into murder, says police spokesperson Per Fahlström.

The police do not want to say more at this time about the gender and age of the person who was found dead.

Qatar: Then the ceasefire comes into effect

Israel has approved the agreement with Hamas on the cease-fire in Gaza and the release of the hostages. Now Qatar states that the ceasefire will come into force on Sunday at half past nine local time (half past eight Swedish time). This is stated by Majed Al-Ansari, spokesperson for Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs at X.

In a first step, it concerns a six-week ceasefire between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas. During the same period, Hamas will also release 33 hostages.

Exposed to attempted robbery – boy arrested

A 25-year-old man was the victim of an attempted robbery in central Malmö this morning with what the police described as a “gun-like object”.

But the perpetrator did not take anything with him. A short time later, a few hundred meters away, a boy was stopped and arrested on suspicion of attempted robbery.

The gun-like object was judged to be a soft airgun.

Thousands without power after strong winds in northern Sweden

The night’s strong winds have created problems in large parts of Norrland. On Saturday morning, Eon’s outage map shows that over 9,600 customers are without power, the majority in Jämtland and Västernorrland counties.

SMHI has continued to issue orange weather warnings for wind over the Lapland Mountains and the Jämtland Mountains, which will subside during Saturday.

– It has been like a pickaxe with trees over the roads. So we’ve had to deal with the entire region, says Anna Nordlund, emergency operator at the Mittnorrland rescue region.

50 feared dead in migrant boat accident

Fifty people are feared to have drowned when a migrant boat capsized off the coast of Morocco earlier this week. A Spanish human rights organization, Walking Borders, has raised the alarm that the migrants died on their way from Mauritania to the Canary Islands. The journey must have started on January 2.

Of the 50 presumed victims, 44 are said to have been Pakistanis. Almost all are said to have been from towns in the Punjab province of eastern Pakistan. According to information to the Pakistani embassy in Morocco, there were a total of 80 people on board the capsized boat.

The route from North West Africa to the Canary Islands has become the main route for migrants who want to reach Europe. According to the EU border agency Frontex, over 50,000 migrants took that route in 2024.

Young men abused

Two young men aged 18 and 17, respectively, have been beaten during some kind of altercation in Karlshamn. According to the police, unknown perpetrators must have come forward and dealt blows.

“The man and the boy are said to have been hit with some kind of object and kicked,” the police write on their website.

No one has been arrested. The incident occurred at 02:00 last night and is classified as aggravated assault.

Several dead in Russian attack on Kiev

At least three people have been killed in a Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital Kiev early Saturday morning, the city’s military command said.

Windows of residential buildings as well as a subway station are said to have been smashed and a fire has broken out in a building that is not a residence, Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klytchko said on Telegram. The affected station, Lukianivska, has been closed and trains are passing through without stopping.

Ukraine’s air force has warned of attacks by ballistic robots and drones.