Two people were hit during the gunfire in the suburb of Stockholm, while a third came easier to damage.

Three people are on the night of Wednesday brought to the hospital after a shooting in the southern part of Stockholm.

The police according to the Swedish newspaper Expressen.

– There are two skudskadede people, says Richard Tegnér, there is vagtchef by the police in Södertörn.

The third person was according to police, easier to damage. None of the hospitalized people suffered life-threatening injuries.

Police have not made arrests in connection with the incident, which was reported around the clock 01:30.

the Shooting took place in the suburb of Norsborg. The police have cordoned off the crime scene and initiated technical studies.

– We are out in the square now, with patrols and technicians. At the moment we have no suspects, said Richard Tegnér to Expressen.

Deadly shootings have plagued Sweden for several years. Up to the middle of november in the year there had been 32 skuddrab. Ago are a handful of further persons have been killed by the shot.

For well over a week departed for a younger man at death at a hospital in Uppsala as a result of a skudskade. And on Thursday night last week, was a man of 25 years killed by shot in the city of Kristianstad in Skåne.

In 2018, 45 people were killed, shot in Sweden, while the figure in 2017 was 43, according to the Swedish news agency TT.

The Swedish government adopted in October a number of austerity measures in an attempt to reduce the number of killings and the fight against banditry.

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