CNN —Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said he will meet the national army and police chiefs on Friday to combat a surge in gang violence, as the country reels from record shooting deaths this month.
Police said about 30,000 people in Sweden are directly involved with or have links to gang crime, according to the news agency.
On Wednesday, three people – two men and a woman – were killed in just 12 hours in incidents related to gang violence near the Swedish capital, Stockholm, Swedish police told CNN.
Children and innocent people are affected by the serious violence, Kristersson added.
Sweden has never seen anything like it, no other country in Europe is experiencing anything like this,” the Swedish prime minister said.
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