A shooting in the Swedish city of Malmo, which followed a car bombing minutes beforehand, has left one teenage boy dead and two other people injured.
One of the injured, another teenage boy is currently in critical condition.
Police have not yet determined if the two incidents were linked but the city has been plagued with gang violence for several years with the use of improvised explosive devices becoming an ever more regular occurrence.
The shooters fled the scene on bicycles and police have so far made no arrests.
At one time, Sweden, was considered one of the safest and least crime blighted countries in the world but in recent years that has all changed.
The Scandinavian nation now has one of the highest rates of rape and sexual assaults in the world with heavily armed violent criminal gangs blighting cities in the country.
Now police have warned that it’s only a matter of time before fatalities start to rack up after they announced national bomb squad has been called out to 30 blasts in the past two months and 100 so far this year.
The culturally enriched southern city of Malmö is the worst effected with a dramatic increase in crime, gang activity and general anti-social behaviour since the government’s decision to open the country’s borders to hundreds of thousands of unvetted migrants.
Recently the CEO of automaker Scania warns that the ever-growing number of foreigners entering the country to avail of its generous welfare system are edging Sweden toward civil war.
Former Scania CEO Leif Östling warned Swedish outlet SwebbTV that the enduring cultural divide between non-European migrants and indigenous Swedes is too great to bridge and that that clashes between migrants and locals, which have already turned some areas into “no-go zones” for police.
The corporate leader said that this could escalate into “internal wars” requiring direct military intervention.
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