Swedish broadcaster SVT noted that the two fatal shootings brings the death toll from gun violence in September to 11, making it the deadliest month for shootings since police started keeping ...

As Sweden votes on Sunday in parliamentary elections, gun crime looms large for a country more commonly associated with its high living standards, women’s rights and welcoming asylum policies. Image ...

Sweden will work with governments and authorities in the Nordic region to prevent gang violence from spilling over borders, Justice Minister Gunnar Strommer said after a spate of violent crime by ...

Ismael Abdo is one of Sweden's most wanted criminals and the subject of an international arrest warrant since 2024.

Orebro, Sweden — Sweden's worst-ever mass shooting left at least 11 people dead on Tuesday, including the gunman, and at least five seriously wounded at an adult education center west of Stockholm.

Whereas gun violence used to be mostly confined to the immigrant-dominated suburbs of Sweden's three largest cities - Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmo - in recent months smaller towns have ...

According to EU statistics agency Eurostat, 25 people aged 15-24 were killed by gun violence in Sweden in 2021, second in the EU only to France, which had 40 such deaths across a population six ...

Gun crime has been a growing problem in Sweden for the last decade. 2022 was a record year with more than 60 deadly shootings. There were around 50 deadly shootings in the first 10 months of 2023.

For years Sweden has suffered from high rates of gang-related violence, but for the past two years it has been relentless. In the first ten months of the year there were 324 shootings in Sweden ...

A mass-shooting in Sweden claimed 10 lives this past week. ... Americans are, as a rule, more violent than our European cousins — not only when armed with guns but other forms of violence.