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Vilks, whose caricatures sparked outrage among Muslims in 2007, was killed when the car he was traveling in collided with a truck at around 3.30pm outside Markaryd, Sweden.
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He boarded a police car disguised as a civilian vehicle with two police officers as bodyguards.
Vilks has lived under police protection since he drew caricatures insulting the Prophet Muhammad in 2007.
According to the Swedish newspaper, Expressen, Tuesday (5/10/2021), the oddity in the accident was the car Vilks was traveling on was on the wrong side of the road at the time of the accident. In fact, there were two policemen in the car.
Vilks and the two policemen in the car were all killed.
“On Sunday afternoon, an accident occurred at E4 outside Markaryd when a police car [disamarkan sebagai mobil] civilian and a truck collided,” Swedish police said in a statement.
“It is with dismay and sadness that I receive the news that two of our colleagues and our security guard died this afternoon.”
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