STOCKHOLM — Three people were killed and three others were injured when a double-decker bus crashed into a bus stop in Stockholm on Friday, police said.
The crash occurred at 3:23 p.m. on Valhallavägen in the Östermalm district, in the northern part of the Swedish capital near the Royal Institute of Technology. The bus rammed directly into the shelter, leaving the front of the vehicle heavily damaged.
Police are investigating the incident as involuntary manslaughter, although the cause of the crash has not yet been determined. According to the Swedish news agency TT, authorities confirmed that the driver had been detained and will be questioned to establish what happened.
Emergency services said the bus, a regular city vehicle, was not in service at the time and had no passengers on board.
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson wrote on X that he had received “the tragic news that several people have been killed and injured at a bus stop, people who were perhaps on their way home to family, friends, or a quiet evening at home.”
He added that although the cause remained unclear, his thoughts were with the victims and their families.
Edgardo Hernal started college at UP Diliman and received his BA in Economics from San Sebastian College, Manila, and Masters in Information Systems Management from Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University in Oak Brook, IL. He has 25 years of copy editing and management experience at Thomson West, a subsidiary of Thomson Reuters.
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