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Three stabbed in Ikea knife attack

_84799229_84799221Two are dead following the attack at an IKEA store in Vesteras, Sweden, an hour east of Stockholm.

A third was seriously injured, according to Reuters.

“We found a man and a woman who had knife injuries and who later died of their wounds,” local police said in a statement. The motive of the attack was unclear.

A 35 year-old man was seriously injured, Swedish television reported.

“He was brought in from the site of the incident with life-threatening injuries,” Lena Moren, head duty nurse at Vasteras hospital, told the SVT public broadcaster.

The BBC adds that a man is in police custody, but no motive has been established.

Update: Bloomberg reports that the third victim is in critical condition and undergoing surgery.

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