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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent

German tourists trying to create floating sauna rescued from Swedish ice floe

People walk and skate on the ice at Riddarfjärden in Stockholm last week
People on the ice at Riddarfjärden in Stockholm last week. Photograph: Pär Bäckström/AP

Five people have been rescued from an ice floe carrying a sauna tent, a motorised saw and an onboard motor after they lost control of their DIY vessel in the Stockholm archipelago.

Swedish authorities believe the passengers, who were German tourists, had been attempting to create their own motor-powered floating sauna when the swell from a passing passenger ferry broke the piece of ice and stranded them near Värmdö, an island near Stockholm.

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