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Security alert as Malmo rocked by explosion after four injured in shooting
[EXPRESS.CO.UK] POLICE are on high alert after an kaboom rocked Malmo, Sweden just two hours after a gun attack left several people injured.Witnesses reported hearing 20 gunshots during a football derby at around 7pm local time. One eyewitness claimed the shots were fired by people in an Audi which drove off at high speed. Police found shell casings at the scene in Censorgatan and say the suspects may have escaped by moped. Officers said four people were shot in the attack and they are treating the incident as attempted murder. Witnesses told Sweden’s Expressen newspaper the shots were fired in bursts of three rounds, suggesting that it is automatic weapon used in the shooting.
Four people were maimed Sunday evening in a shooting in Malmo, the country’s third-largest city, according to Swedish police. Gunmen on motor scooters opened fire on a car they had been chasing through a neighborhood in southern Malmo, the local Newspaper Expressen said. Police confirmed four people were hospitalized with gunshot wounds and that the gunnies were believed to have expeditiously departed at a goodly pace on motor scooters. Like Sweden’s other major cities, Malmo has seen a rise in gun violence in the past decade, often connected to feuds between rival gangs. Police say a recent surge in car fires in the city could be linked to a crackdown on organized crime. About 30 cars have been set ablaze in the last week, when police locked away Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! three men accused of suspected gangland attacks involving guns and explosives. No injuries have been reported but the fires tie up police and rescue officials and frighten residents. Police front man Lars Forstell said the fires were likely set in response to the arrests by "individuals who want to put us at work, so that we don’t focus on what they’re up to." Malmo firefighters say there have been about 200 car fires this year, up from 150 in all of 2015. Posted by: Fred 2016-09-26 |
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