Published 30 August 2021 at 09.23
Domestic. The police received alarms about four different shootings in Stockholm – all between 20 last night and 03 last night, reports Aftonbladet.
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Several people alerted the police shortly after 02.30 that they heard several shots being fired in Hjulsta. One or more people were also seen running from the crime scene.
When the police arrived at the scene, two injured men were found outside in a courtyard. The two were seriously injured and had to go by ambulance to hospital. Preliminary investigations into attempted murder and serious gun crime have been launched.
Three more shootings took place in other places in Stockholm during the evening and night.
At 20.17, the police were alerted to a suspected shooting in Tensta , where bullet holes in two cars were confirmed in two cars.
At 23.15, an alarm was received about a suspected shooting on Hägerstensvägen in southern Stockholm. There, the police found empty shell casings.
The alarm about the last shooting was received at 03.04 after shots were heard in Bredäng. Empty houses were also found there and the police arrested two people.
Ola Österling, press spokesperson at the Stockholm Police, tells Expressen that the shootings have required large police resources during the night.
– It is an exceptional situation, he says.