Three people were killed overnight in separate incidents in Sweden as deadly violence linked to a feud between criminal gangs escalated.

Late Wednesday, an 18-year-old man was shot dead in a Stockholm suburb. Hours later, one man was killed and another was wounded in a shooting in Jordbro, south of the Swedish capital.

Early Thursday a woman in her 20s died in an explosion in Uppsala, west of Stockholm. The blast, which damaged five houses, is being treated by the police as a murder. Swedish media said the woman who died was likely not the intended victim and that the target was the house next door.

Swedish broadcaster SVT noted that the two fatal shootings bring the death toll from gun violence in September to 11, making it the deadliest month for shootings since police started keeping statistics in 2016.

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    49 months ago

    It’s also possible that a large number of murders go undetected. I’m pretty sure there’s a serial killer operating around Trondheim that the police seem to be unaware of. And about 15 years ago there was one in Bergen.

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        19 months ago

        Bergen had a lot of missing persons posters go up for a while and they were all blonde men in their early twenties. I haven’t seen missing persons posters anywhere else in Norway and there aren’t any in Bergen now.

        Trondheim has a lot of drownings. More than Bergen which has a longer coastline and a higher population than Trondheim. And despite the non white population of Trondheim being less than 10% of the total they make up about 90% of the drownings.