2024-07-17 23:55:21
According to Aftonbladet daily, the driver and a passenger who were driving across the Danish-Swedish border to the southern city of Malmö were shot dead on Sunday.
A Toyota RAV4 rented from Copenhagen Airport was later set on fire in an industrial area of Malmö. The identities of the victims have not been released.
A UK Foreign Office spokesman said it was supporting the families of two Britons who are missing in Sweden.
The car was rented by a British national and a Swedish forensics team is working to identify the victims, Aftonbladet reported on Tuesday.
Swedish police spokeswoman Kerstin Gossé said police were looking for witnesses who saw a black Toyota in the Fosie industrial area where the shooting happened.
“We want to speak to people who saw this car. This is a black RAV4 Toyota car registered in Denmark.
We don’t think they’re Danish nationals, that’s all we can say at this point… We’re interested in any sightings that you think could be related in any way to this event during that time period,” she detailed.
Swedish police declined to comment on whether the incident was related to gang violence. Interpol was also reportedly involved in the investigation as the victims crossed international borders during their travels.
Sweden has been the scene of conflict between gangs fighting over arms and drug trafficking in recent years, and has the second-highest gun crime death rate in Europe after Albania.
Last September was the Scandinavian country’s worst month for shooting deaths since 2016, when two people were killed in separate shootings, for a total of 11 deaths in the month.
In the first incident, an 18-year-old man was killed in the early evening at a busy sports field in the southwestern Stockholm suburb of Mälarhöjden. Later that evening, a second man was shot dead in Jordbro, south of Stockholm.
in 2022 There were 391 shootings in Sweden, 62 of which were fatal.
The number of gun homicides in the capital Stockholm in 2022 was about 30 times higher than in London, on a per capita basis.
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2024-07-17 23:55:21