A 16-year-old has been detained on suspicion of capturing and killing three individuals in Sweden, prosecutors have stated.
A homicide investigation was launched following the incident within the metropolis of Uppsala on Tuesday.
{The teenager} is one in every of a number of individuals being interrogated as a part of the investigation, Swedish police stated.
The drive added that the capturing came about at a hair salon they usually imagine it to have been an “isolated event”.
Police additionally stated they don’t imagine the capturing was linked to the intensive celebrations for Walpurgis evening, a pagan pageant marking the arrival of spring, which had been anticipated in in Uppsala on Wednesday.
Witnesses earlier advised native media they heard 5 pictures and noticed individuals within the space operating to take cowl.
Police stated on Tuesday it was investigating the capturing as a murder and that it had no details about whether or not it was a terror or hate crime-related incident at that time.
A spokesperson for the drive stated it had info somebody had left the scene on an electrical scooter – it was unclear whether or not they had been a suspect, witness or in any other case.
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Officers close to the crime scene in Sweden. Pic: Reuters/TT Information Company
Electrical scooters have been used a number of occasions as a mode of transport after gang shootings within the nation.
Uppsala, a metropolis round 70km (43 miles) north of the capital Stockholm, has seen various gang-related shootings previously decade, however normally exterior the town centre.
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