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Local Sweden
25-03-2025
- Local Sweden
New rail saver ticket to be introduced for Copenhagen and Skåne regions
The new saver ticket, available from March 31st, replaces the discontinued Öresund runt ("around the Öresund") ticket but does not fully cover the same route. The ticket, which has a validity period of 48 hours, can be used by either tourists or residents in the region. The Öresund runt ticket was discontinued after the ferry company operating between Helsingborg and Helsingør withdrew from the collaboration after 23 years. Public transport operator Skånetrafiken has now developed a ticket that partially replaces it, Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan writes. 'We looked at the Öresund runt ticket. This almost replaces it but without the ferry crossing. The new ticket lasts for 48 hours instead of the previous two calendar days, allowing travellers to start their journey in the evening,' Patrik Engfors, head of partnerships at Skånetrafiken, told Sydsvenskan. Advertisement The price for 48 hours of unlimited travel within Skånetrafiken's network on the Swedish side of the Öresund is 299 Swedish kronor (200 Danish kroner), while a ticket covering both Skåne and Denmark costs 599 kronor (415 kroner) and is valid in the Copenhagen region, extending all the way to popular destinations like Helsingør and Gilleleje on the northern Zealand coast. The ticket will remain available after the summer season. The travel pass will be available on the Skånetrafiken app from March 31st.
Local Sweden
05-02-2025
- Local Sweden
Örebro campus shooter named in Swedish media
Andersson, from Örebro, was first named by the Expressen tabloid shortly before 3pm, after which newspapers Aftonbladet, Sydsvenskan and the local news site Nerikes Allehanda followed suit. Swedish public broadcaster SVT waited until shortly after 5pm. Swedish police have yet to confirm his name officially. According to Aftonbladet, Andersson, who changed his name in 2017 from Jonas Simon, had struggled with psychiatric problems through much of his upbringing, had failed to complete school, been unemployed and had lived a largely socially isolated life in recent years. Swedish police said earlier on Wednesday there was "a lot" to indicate that the shooter had turned the gun on himself. "There is a lot to indicate that," Örebro police chief Roberto Eid Forest told a press conference when asked by a reporter if the gunman had shot himself, with Forest adding that the suspect was deceased when police reached him. The Expressen newspaper reported that Andersson had been nicknamed Luvan, meaning "the hood", or "hoodie", at school because he often had a hood pulled over his head, and would also often obscure his face with his hands. Despite his reported psychiatric problems, he had been granted a licence for four rifles, the newspaper claimed. He carried three rifles to Campus Risbergska, where he carried out his attack: one hunting rifle, one shotgun, and an automatic rifle. The newspaper reported that Andersson had repeatedly applied to do his national service and been rejected every time because of his lack of the necessary school grades to qualify for upper secondary education. He finished the ninth class at the Navets elementary school, aged 16, without receiving a passing grade in a single subject, Expressen reported. He did manage to get into Wadköpings education centre, a municipal upper secondary school, where he received a good grade in arts, history and psychology, but was failed in seven other subjects. In 2021, he was registered as a student at Campus Risbergska, where he carried out his attack, according to Aftonbladet. He started studying maths at upper secondary level, but appears to have dropped out before completing the course. Public broadcasters SR and the Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet newspapers have yet to name the shooter.
