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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jennifer Rankin and agencies

Sweden points to ‘foreign power’ after Iraqi refugee on trial for Qur’an burnings shot dead

Salwan Momika
Salwan Momika caused outrage when he burned copies of the Qur’an in public demonstrations in 2023. Photograph: Johan Nilsson/AP

Sweden’s prime minister has said a foreign power may have been involved in the fatal shooting of an anti-Islam campaigner just hours before a trial verdict over his burning of the Qur’an was due.

Police arrested five people over the killing of Salwan Momika, 38, who was shot late on Wednesday in a house in the town of Södertälje, near Stockholm. Authorities did not say whether the shooter was among those detained.

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