sábado, 23 de outubro de 2010

Swedish police hunt serial shooter


Stockholm, Sweden (CNN) -- A suspected serial shooter is keeping a city in southern Sweden on edge.
Police say as many as 15 shootings in Malmo over the last year may be linked to a single perpetrator who is targeting immigrants living in the city. Investigators have no suspects.
The shootings have all been well planned, under the protection of darkness and at places familiar to the shooter, according to CNN's Swedish affiliate TV4, citing police.
Several of the shootings have occurred in recent weeks, police say.
On Thursday evening, two immigrant women were wounded when shot through their apartment window.
"I'm almost afraid of turning on the light in my apartment at night now," Shukrije Berisha, who lives in the same building, told the Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet.
In similar incidents, two men of an "ethnic minority background" were recently shot while waiting at bus stops, according to police.
One of them "was lucky to be alive after being shot in the torso," Malmo police superintendent Hans Nilsson told CNN.
"The shooter was most likely waiting in the bushes before firing his weapon," Nilsson said.
Victim Basi Hassan told TV4, "I was standing here at the bus stop when I suddenly heard a shot. I don't know where it came from. Then I saw my own blood and I started feeling dizzy".
The latest report of a shooting came late Friday evening, when a male immigrant reported he was shot at while riding his bicycle.
The Swedish National Murder Commission and the Swedish National Criminal Police have launched a major operation together with local police to find the gunman.
A group of psychologists is trying to profile the shooter's behavior before, during and after the attacks.
Police have also increased the number of officers and K-9 units patrolling the city.
CNN