A Swedish court convicted a 37-year-old man on Thursday over a 2004 double murder that went unsolved until police matched his DNA on a popular genealogy website.
The trial of a 37-year-old man is under way, after police matched his DNA on a popular genealogy website – 16 years after a woman and boy were killed in the town of Linköping in Sweden.
As much as 15-20 kilos of industrial explosives – placed in a cargo bike – was used to carry out the bomb attack in Linköping in June, making it up to almost 40 times as big as charges used in recent attacks in Malmö.
UPDATED: The main police station in the Swedish city of Linköping was on Wednesday cordoned off after a suspicious object was found placed by the entrance, but police were later able to confirm it did not contain explosives.
As the investigation into a Friday explosion at an apartment building in Linköping continues, police on Sunday appeared to be focusing on certain residents of the buildings.
Special police unit NOA (Nationella operativa avdelningen) will reinforce city police in Linköping on Saturday as efforts to clear up Friday morning’s explosion continue.
A Swedish family from a residential area outside Linköping got a shock on Wednesday when they sat down to breakfast only to see a large wolf lurking in their garden.
A 17-year-old girl from Linköping in southern Sweden has been arrested in Austria. According to her family, she was heading to Syria to join the Isis extremist group.
In recent months the refugee crisis has blown all proportions, and societies have struggled to handle the influx. Linköping University has decided to help – here’s how.
Seventeen people were arrested during the early hours of Tuesday after a man was shot dead in central Sweden. Several of the suspects were already known to the police for gang crimes.
A 34-year-old man was given life imprisonment on Thursday for the murder of a 15-year-old boy and 57-year-old woman in Ljungsbro in eastern Sweden in November 2013.
The man suspected of the brutal double murder in Ljungsbro at the beginning of November has confessed to the crime. Initial medical examinations meanwhile indicate that he is suffering from a serious mental disorder.
The boyfriend of the 57-year-old woman, who was killed together with a 15-year-old boy in the Ljungsbro double murder case which has rocked Sweden, has spoken out about the brutal events of Friday night.
The man arrested on suspicion of having murdered a 15-year-old boy and 57-year-old woman in Ljungsbro near Linköping in eastern Sweden on Saturday has denied the allegations.
An adult elk caused a kerfuffle after falling into a swimming pool in central Sweden on Tuesday, needing a team of emergency workers to help carry out the unorthodox animal rescue operation.
A 21-year-old Swedish man fears that he will be unable to walk unaided again after Linköping University Hospital lost track of him, leading to a delay in the treatment of a routine foot fracture.
On Thursday, 14-year-old Lovisa Nystrand from Linköping in central Sweden published a video on Facebook entitled "How it all happened" in which she tells of being raped by a friend.
A half-naked Swedish woman trying to beat a reckless driving fine told police she was “licking ice cream” off a male driver’s body as the couple raced down the motorway in an open-topped Porsche.
One in ten female high school students in Sweden has been forced to take part in some sort of sexual act, according to a new study from Linköping University. And in about half of the cases, the perpetrator was the same age as the victim.
A Swedish language preservation network has blasted plans by the "Twin Cities of Sweden" to market their common metropolitan area using the name of a small town in central Texas in the United States.
A woman had one of her breasts removed in south central Sweden and was told after surgery that she did not have breast cancer. This makes it the nation’s third such case during July.
