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The derailed train hangs on the edge of the track after it crashed into the side of a residential building in Saltsjobaden outside Stockholm, Sweden. AP Photo/Jonas Ekströmer

Sweden: Stolen train leaves tracks before crashing into three-storey building

No one was injured in the incident.

A WOMAN STOLE an empty commuter train from a depot and drove it to a suburb of Stockholm where it derailed and slammed into an apartment building, officials have said.

The woman was seriously injured in the early morning crash and was flown to a Stockholm hospital, police spokesman Lars Bystrom said. No one else was injured.

Bystrom said the woman was arrested on suspicion of endangering the public.

Tomas Hedenius, a spokesman for train operator Arriva, said the woman, born in 1990, stole the four-car train at a depot outside Stockholm.

She then drove it about 1.6 kilometres to the end station on the railway line, where it jumped off the tracks, careered for about 25 metres and crashed into a three-story building.

“There were three families inside the apartment building, but no one was injured. At least not physically,” Hedenius said.

The motives of the woman, who worked for a company contracted to carry out cleaning for the train operator, were not immediately clear.

“We have only heard good things about her. We’re investigating how this could happen, and why she did what she did,” Hedenius said.

He said it’s unclear how she got the keys to the train, but added that driving it is not that complicated.

“Generally speaking that’s possible even if you’re not a train driver,” he said. “You can read about it on the Internet, or observe how others do it.”

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    Jul 2nd 2024, 4:33 PM

    Nothing left about Keir Starmer or the Labour party in general since the 90s. Not only in Britain, the whole western World has shifted to the right over the last couple of decades. We’ve seen it in FF and the Greens in this country. Nothing is state-owned. Everything is privatised or public/private partnerships.

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    @9QRixo8H: The British Labour are as about left as the small finger on your right hand.

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    @Tony Skillington: are you saying Britain are shift rightwards by picking Labour over the Conservatives or Reform? Or are they shifting leftwards? Labour will get an OVERALL majority.

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    @9QRixo8H: they’re centre slightly left…the unions have lost their sway over the labour leadership thus the left influence has been well diluted.

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    @Tony Skillington: ok so the UK are shifting leftwards.

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    @9QRixo8H: like most places, they want change
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