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Two killed in knife attack at IKEA in Sweden; two arrested
2015-08-11
[REUTERS] A man and a woman were killed and a third injured in a knife attack at an IKEA store in the Swedish city of Vasteras on Monday and two suspects were arrested, police said.

One of the suspects was apprehended at the scene and the second, who was seriously injured, was picked up at a hospital a few hours later, commanding police officer Per Agren said at a press conference. How he was injured was not clear.

The suspects were two men born in 1992 and 1979 who probably knew each other, Agren said. They had no connection with the victims and the motive for the attack was not known, he said.

Officers were called to the store at 1 p.m. (0700 ET) and found three people with knife injuries, police spokesman Per Stromback told reporters outside the IKEA outlet about an hour west of the capital, Stockholm.

The 35-year-old man had life-threatening injuries, Vasteras hospital head nurse Lena Moren told the public broadcaster SVT.

Vasteras newspaper VLT posted a video on its website it said was of police wrestling the suspect to the ground in a bus shelter.

The victims had been shopping at IKEA and were known to each other, police said.
Posted by:Fred

#5  The Swedes were use to using some really big knives, but that was generations ago.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-08-11 19:37  

#4  The vermin were Asylum seekers from IIRR Eritrea.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2015-08-11 19:10  

#3  wow
just wow
Posted by: Frank G   2015-08-11 18:34  

#2  Two Swedish men, an empty tent,
So down to Västerås they went
With Swedish wives in sacks in tow
To see how far their dole would go.

One Swedish man felt ill at ease,
Asked, "Are these halal, if you please?"
The cashier mumbled, "Huh? Halal?
Here is a number you can call."

"Not halal? Not halal?
IKEA meatballs are not halal?"

He told the shoppers near at hand
The pious dinner he had planned.
The Swedes were startled not at all
To hear him fulminate withal,

"Not halal! Not halal!
IKEA meatballs are not halal!"

The little man hopped up and down
And pulled a dagger from his gown.
He first -- for honor -- stuck his wife,
Then slashed at shoppers with his knife.

"Not halal! Not halal!
IKEA meatballs are not halal!"

One Swedish couple felt real sad --
Taboo meatballs was what they'd had --
And, dying, heard their butcher's call,
"Allahu akbar! Allahu akbar! Allahu akbar! Seventy-two virgins for one meatball!"
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2015-08-11 16:59  

#1  "These meatballs aren't halal!"
Posted by: Frank G   2015-08-11 15:23  

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