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frozen

Man finds fox frozen in Swedish lake

PHOTOS: A man ice skating on a lake in central Sweden was shocked to find a fox frozen solid after the thin ice had apparently cracked.

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Three drown while ice fishing in west Sweden

In two separate incidents, two women between 60 and 70 years old and a man in his sixties fell through the ice and died while fishing on the Swedish west coast on Saturday.

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Skier found drowned after falling through ice

The body of a 60-year-old man was found in the hole of a frozen sea inlet in Umeå, northern Sweden, a day after he went missing.

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Undertakers 'sickened' by hospital’s corpse storage

A Swedish hospital has come under fire after it was reported that staff members were storing corpses “head-to-toe”, leaving the undertakers who made the discovery shocked and sickened.

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Dead Swedes face burial against families' wishes

Twelve dead Swedes who have spent several years in the deep freeze, pending the legalisation of an “environmentally friendly” burial procedure, may be buried against their families’ wishes.

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Dead woman kept frozen in Sweden for four years

The body of a 90-year-old woman who died four years ago has remained frozen since her death, as her distraught daughter refuses to have her buried before an autopsy can determine the cause of death.