One of the two children who was found seriously injured in Stockholm on Sunday night has been confirmed dead. Police suspect that the children were thrown out of a balcony, and the children’s father has been arrested.
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On Sunday night, a major police operation was underway after two children under the age of ten were found with serious injuries outside an apartment building in Hässelby in Stockholm.
Monday morning, the police confirm that one child has died as a result of the injuries, while the other child is life-threateningly injured.
Police suspect that the children have fallen from a great height, and two people have been arrested and suspected of murder and attempted murder. These have a relationship with the children, according to the police.
The children’s father arrested
Swedish media report that one of the two suspects, a man in his 40s, is the children’s father. according to Aftonbladet he must have stabbed the children before throwing them out of the apartment. According to the newspaper, it is 15 meters down to the ground from the apartment. This information has not been confirmed by the police.
On Sunday night, the police carried out technical investigations of the apartment and knocked on the door of neighbors. Aftonbladet has spoken to a number of neighbors, who according to the newspaper are strongly affected by what has happened.
One of them is Mattias Elverljung, who has lived in the area for five years.
– It feels completely incomprehensible. It is terrible that it happens at all, but it is clear that you are extra affected when something like this happens in your own backyard, he says to Aftonbladet.
A neighbor who lives in the same upstairs as the family has told Expressen that he heard noises from the apartment around 9.30 pm, but that he did not hear any children shouting. At midnight, the police knocked on the door and asked what he had heard.
– The family was unusually quiet. At first I thought it was something that had happened further up, he says to Expressen.
The neighbor experienced the father of the family as nice, he tells the newspaper.
– I met him in the elevator sometimes. The father was very nice and welcoming, says the father.
The police were notified of the incident at 21.46, and the emergency services moved out with large forces, according to Aftonbladet. Then the police spokesperson Helena Boström Thomas confirmed to VG that they suspected that the children had fallen from a great height and that they did not rule out anything that something criminal had happened.
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