15-yr-old asylum seeker stabs refugee worker to death

Pandemonium struck at a home for asylum seekers younger than 18 when a boy stabbed a refugee worker to death at a refugee centre which is about 6 miles (10 kilometers) from Mölndal town, in the Gothenberg region of western Sweden.

Hans Lippens, a police spokesman for the Västra Götaland region said the incident has not been classified as terrorism, and the boy, who is in police custody, has not been identified, though his country of origin is known.

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Lippens said the victim, a 22-year-old woman, was alone with eight young male residents of the home when the incident happened.

Only one is believed to have been directly involved, though police are questioning the seven other boys.

“This was not terrorism. We think it might have been an accident, or there was a fight,” Lippens said.

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