Shortly before midnight on New Year’s Eve, the Malmö police received a report of a shooting in a stairwell in the city. Two teenage boys were found shot in the head in the stairwell.

Rescue personnel who arrived at von Rosens väg in Rosengård saw one of the boys with a gunshot wound through the head, and the other boy had been shot through the cheek. Both are seriously injured and are being kept sedated at Skåne University Hospital.

According to information given to Sydsvenskan, one of the shot boys is suspected of involvement in an explosion on von Trolls väg that took place on Lucia.

Three men suspected of involvement in the shooting against the teenage boys were arrested on Wednesday night. The three individuals were then detained on Wednesday morning on suspicion of attempted murder.