A number of individuals killed and injured as bus crashes into cease in Sweden | Transport Information

Swedish police say no info the Stockholm bus accident was an assault, with out giving numbers of these killed.

A number of individuals have been killed and injured when a bus hit a bus cease in central Stockholm, Swedish police stated, including that that they had no info pointing to it being an assault.

There have been six casualties within the incident on Friday, a spokesperson for Stockholm’s rescue companies stated, with out giving the numbers of these killed and injured.

The spokesperson stated there have been no passengers on the bus on the time.

“It’s being investigated as involuntary manslaughter. The bus driver has been arrested, however that’s routine in such an incident,” a police spokesperson stated.

Well being authorities spokesperson Michelle Marcher instructed the AFP information company that two critically injured individuals had been transported to hospital.

Police stated that a number of individuals had been hit, however they weren’t instantly offering info on their quantity, gender or ages.

Ambulances, police and rescue companies had been working on the scene, they added.

An image on every day Aftonbladet’s web site confirmed emergency companies on the web site, surrounding a blue double-decker bus, with particles scattered across the automobile.

The incident occurred close to the Royal Institute of Expertise college, police stated.

‘Unreal’

A girl recognized as Michelle Mac Key instructed the every day newspaper Expressen she stepped off one other bus on the scene simply after the accident occurred.

“I crossed the street and noticed the double-decker bus that had mowed down a whole bus cease queue,” she stated. Folks had been screaming and making an attempt to assist the injured.

She stated she noticed each injured and useless individuals mendacity on the bottom. “There will need to have been extra individuals beneath the bus,” she stated.

A nurse by occupation, she and one other man who was a physician, provided their assist to police after they arrived.

“They instructed us to face subsequent to the useless our bodies,” she stated. “I assumed it was an train at first. That possibly they had been dolls. It was so unreal. Chaos.”

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson stated his ideas had been with the victims and their households.

“I’ve acquired the tragic information that a number of individuals have died and been injured at a bus cease in central Stockholm,” he wrote on X.

“Individuals who might need been on their method residence to household, associates, or a quiet night at residence. We don’t but know the trigger, however proper now my ideas are primarily with these affected and their family members.”