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Three found murdered in Uddevalla

Three people were found dead in the city of Uddevalla in western Sweden. Police have confirmed that the case is being investigated as a triple homicide.

Three found murdered in Uddevalla

The bodies of the three were found near Uddevalla’s hospital. One was in a car in a parking lot while the two others lay outside the car.

A jogger discovered the body in the car, a man, just before 7am on Saturday morning and police found the other two when they arrived on the scene.

“We have blocked off the area and police are on their way to begin, among other things, knocking on doors in the vicinity,” said Christer Fuxborg, a police spokesperson.

Medical examiners also arrived on Saturday morning to investigate.

A reporter from the TT news agency said grieving people had come to the parking lot and that one woman tried to get past the police barricade, but was stopped.

The dead have not yet been identified and police have not released information on the gender of the two found outside of the car. According to P4 Väst, the local public radio station, the victims were two men and a woman, all in their 20s. The woman was reported to be in a relationship with one of the men. It is known that the car was not registered in the name of any of the deceased.

Police are also not releasing information on if a weapon was found or when the deaths occurred.

One person told the Göteborgs-Posten newspaper that he heard something that he believed were firecrackers at around four o’clock Saturday morning.

“Then a car drove away at high speed,” he said.

A woman speaking to the Borås Tidning newspaper said no one in the area was allowed to leave the vicinity. She had also heard small explosions during the night.

“In the morning I saw two bodies outside the house. It was obvious that the two were dead,” she told the paper.

Police do not yet have any suspects in the case. 

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Sweden charges Islamic State woman in landmark trial

Swedish prosecutors said they have brought genocide charges against a woman in the country's first court case over crimes committed by the Islamic State group against the Yazidi minority.

Sweden charges Islamic State woman in landmark trial

A prosecutor told AFP the 52-year-old woman was accused of keeping Yazidi women and children as slaves at her home in Syria between 2014 and 2016.

She was charged with “genocide, crimes against humanity and serious war crimes” on the grounds that her actions formed part of a broader campaign by the group (IS or Isis) against the Kurdish-speaking Yazidi minority.

The woman, who is a Swedish citizen, is in jail having already been sentenced by a Swedish court to six years in prison in 2022 for allowing her 12-year-old son to be recruited as a child soldier for Isis.

Senior prosecutor Reena Devgun told AFP that while investigating that case, authorities had received witness reports “that told us that she had kept slaves in Raqqa,” the former stronghold of the Islamic State group in northern Syria, prompting further investigations.

“If you take in Yazidis into your household when you are an Isis member or the wife of an Isis member and treat them this way, I argue that you are participating” in the broader campaign against them, Devgun said.

Devgun said the woman had kept nine people, three women and six children, in her home “as slaves”.

The women and children – who were kept in the house for between 20 days and seven months – were among other things made to perform household tasks.

Devgun said they had also been photographed, which the prosecutor argued “was done with the intention that they would be sold off”.

Evidence had mainly been gathered through witness accounts, from the victims and others that had visited the home at the time.

The crimes, which the woman denies, can carry a life sentence in Sweden.

Stockholm’s District Court said in a statement that the trial was scheduled to start on October 7th and was expected to last two months.

Around 300 Swedes or Swedish residents, a quarter of them women, joined IS in Syria and Iraq, mostly in 2013 and 2014, according to Sweden’s intelligence service Säpo.

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