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Stockholm Bus Crash Kills at Least 3 as Brazil Reports Multiple Deadly Road Accidents

Investigators are assessing suspected negligence in Sweden alongside separate Brazilian crash inquiries.

Overview

  • Swedish police say a bus hit a stop in Östermalm, leaving at least three dead and several injured, and cordoned the area for forensic work.
  • The detained bus driver is under investigation on suspicion of gross negligence or negligent homicide, with officials cautioning that the cause remains unknown.
  • On BR-135 near Buenópolis (MG), a bus and two trucks crashed after a truck reportedly stopped with a mechanical failure, killing one and injuring five as the highway reopened by morning.
  • In Porto Alegre (RS), a judge ordered preventive detention for the car driver in a Nov. 6 crash that killed a 29-year-old motorcyclist; police say he had no license and is now a fugitive.
  • Separate incidents in Brazil included the death of 20-year-old Luiz Henrique Ravagnani after his car struck a bus in Lins (SP), a fatal motorcycle–truck collision in Leopoldina (MG), and a BR-116 closure in Santa Bárbara do Leste following a car–lorry crash.