A surgeon in Lund whose unnecessary operation caused a patient to fall into a coma and die has been fired from his position and reported to Swedish police.
A 22-year old man who was lying on a road in Växjö died on Saturday night after a car ran him over. Police say the car driver is suspected of careless driving and manslaughter.
A number of buildings were evacuated in central Stockholm on Friday after a grenade was found by some steps in the mainly residential Vasastan area of the city.
Parts of a school in a Stockholm suburb were destroyed after a fire broke out on Sunday night. The blaze at Tråsättra school in Åkersberga, a school for children between 6 and 17 (grundskola), started in a single storey classroom building at around 2 am.
The time-honoured Swedish Easter tradition of youths setting off firecrackers in the streets is dying out, following a ban on the noisy fireworks. But kids have not tired of launching 'Easter Rockets', and they're as dangerous as ever.
