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Birmingham schoolboy 'killed in grenade explosion in Sweden' Birmingham schoolboy 'killed in grenade explosion in Sweden'
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An eight-year-old killed after a grenade exploded in an apartment in Sweden was a schoolboy from Birmingham, according to reports.An eight-year-old killed after a grenade exploded in an apartment in Sweden was a schoolboy from Birmingham, according to reports.
The boy was visiting family in Gothenburg when the blast hit their third-floor apartment early on Monday, Swedish police said. The boy was visiting family in Gothenburg when the blast hit their third-floor apartment early on Monday, Swedish police said. He died of his injuries on the way to hospital.
He died of his injuries on the way to hospital. The youngster was named in reports as Yuusuf Warsame, a pupil at Nelson Mandela primary school in Sparkhill, Birmingham. A family member told the Birmingham Mail that two of his siblings and his mother were also caught up in the attack.
The youngster was named in reports as Yuusuf Warsame, a pupil at Nelson Mandela primary school in Sparkhill, Birmingham. Police said in a statement that a boy was sleeping in the living room of an apartment in the working-class neighbourhood of Biskopsgarden in Gothenburg, on Sweden’s west coast, when an unidentified attacker threw a hand grenade through the window. At least five children and several adults were in the apartment at the time.
A family member told the Birmingham Mail that two of his siblings and his mother were also caught up in the attack. Swedish media linked the violence to a gangland feud and quoted police as saying a man convicted of a fatal shooting last year was registered at the address. In March 2015, armed men burst into a pub in Biskopsgarden, gunning down an innocent bystander and a man known to police in a spray of bullets. Eight people were convicted earlier this month for the attack, which took place in the context of an ongoing feud between members of Gothenburg’s Somali community, and handed sentences ranging from seven years to life in prison.
The violence was linked to a gangland feud by Swedish media, who quoted police as saying a man convicted of a fatal shooting last year was registered at the address. While Sweden is generally a peaceful, safe country with low crime rates, police have had difficulty addressing violence in poorer neighbourhoods in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö. In recent years, there have been grenade attacks, shootings and incidents of car arson.
More to follow The issue has been one of the main topics of Sweden’s political debate this summer, as cars have been set alight in the neighbourhoods on an almost nightly basis. The centre-right opposition has called for 2,000 more police officers to be hired, while the leftwing government has proposed a series of crime prevention measures.