Storm Alfrida knocks out Gotland phone network (including emergency number)

Swedish islanders were left without working phone lines and electricity after Storm Alfrida battered Scandinavia.

One in three calls to Sweden’s emergency number are unnecessary

Sweden-bound plane forced into emergency landing

20 firefighters battle blaze on boat in Gothenburg harbour

Flight declares emergency minutes after takeoff

Pregnant woman dies after emergency calls ignored

Emergency calls meet with engaged tone

Stockholm store cleared after ‘gas leak’

Man dies after two hour wait for ambulance

Apartment fire leaves two dead

Police operator fails to report murder call

103-year-old woman puts out bed fire

Forest fires ‘out of control’ in western Sweden

Profit pressures rise for troubled ambulance firm

Woman calls SOS alarm 2,000 times

Woman runs herself over with own car

Doc refused to aid dying man: ‘I don’t know why’

Patient waits eight hours in emergency ward, dies

Old maps result in hour-long ambulance delay

Sweden launches new emergency number

‘Centralize the Swedish emergency call system’

Woman dies hours after ambulance no-show