Sweden arrests teen after deadly gun attack kills 3
Swedish media reported that at least one of the dead had connections to organised gang crime
Swedish police have arrested a teen suspect after three youths aged from 15 to 20 were killed in a shooting at a hair salon, authorities said on Wednesday, amid rising concern over gang violence in the Scandinavian nation.
Tuesday’s shooting took place in broad daylight a day before the Valborg spring festival in the university city of Uppsala, which draws more than 100,000 people for bonfires and celebrations, many of them students.
“One person has been arrested suspected of murder,” police commander Erik Akerlund told a press conference a day after the shooting in Uppsala, 60km (37 miles) north of Stockholm, with prosecutors saying the suspect was 16.
Swedish media reported that at least one of the dead had connections to organised gang crime, though police would not confirm those reports.
“That is something we are obviously looking into, but we don’t want to commit ourselves to only that” possibility, Uppsala police spokesman Stefan Larsson told AFP.