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Security alert as Malmo rocked by explosion after four injured in shooting
2016-09-26
[EXPRESS.CO.UK] POLICE are on high alert after an kaboom rocked Malmo, Sweden just two hours after a gun attack left several people injured.

Witnesses reported hearing 20 gunshots during a football derby at around 7pm local time.

One eyewitness claimed the shots were fired by people in an Audi which drove off at high speed.

Police found shell casings at the scene in Censorgatan and say the suspects may have escaped by moped.

Officers said four people were shot in the attack and they are treating the incident as attempted murder.

Witnesses told Sweden’s Expressen newspaper the shots were fired in bursts of three rounds, suggesting that it is automatic weapon used in the shooting.
The Times of Israel adds:
[IsraelTimes] Local police say a recent surge in violence could be linked to a crackdown on organized crime in the city

Four people were maimed Sunday evening in a shooting in Malmo, the country’s third-largest city, according to Swedish police.

Gunmen on motor scooters opened fire on a car they had been chasing through a neighborhood in southern Malmo, the local Newspaper Expressen said.

Police confirmed four people were hospitalized with gunshot wounds and that the gunnies were believed to have expeditiously departed at a goodly pace on motor scooters.

Like Sweden’s other major cities, Malmo has seen a rise in gun violence in the past decade, often connected to feuds between rival gangs.

Police say a recent surge in car fires in the city could be linked to a crackdown on organized crime.

About 30 cars have been set ablaze in the last week, when police locked away
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three men accused of suspected gangland attacks involving guns and explosives.

No injuries have been reported but the fires tie up police and rescue officials and frighten residents.

Police front man Lars Forstell said the fires were likely set in response to the arrests by "individuals who want to put us at work, so that we don’t focus on what they’re up to."

Malmo firefighters say there have been about 200 car fires this year, up from 150 in all of 2015.
Posted by:Fred

#3  Breitbart has this:

A witness at the hospital posted a description of the chaos to Facebook last night:

Damn, I’m in the emergency room in Malmo and what a f***** [mess]. Screaming and yelling. Turns out now there are around 50 Arabs who are arguing and fighting. The whole place is swarming with police and they have blocked it off so you either get out or in. Blood everywhere. Feels terrible to be here now.
Posted by: trailing wife   2016-09-26 23:00  

#2  SO, how many refugees did you let in this year???
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2016-09-26 11:35  

#1  Police say a recent surge in car fires in the city could be linked to a crackdown on organized crime

You ain't doing it right then.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-09-26 01:45  

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