A 16-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of murder in Sweden, the authorities said on Wednesday, after three people were fatally shot the day before, in the latest blow to a country grappling with high levels of gun violence compared to its European peers.

Suspect, who is under age 18, is being held on probable cause on suspicion of murder, say police - Anadolu Ajansı

Three people were killed in a shooting in the Swedish city of Uppsala on Tuesday (April 29) and a murder investigation has been launched, police said. Police said it was investigating the shooting as a homicide and that it had no information about the incident being a terror or hate crime at this point.