Police officials report numerous messages from youths contacting gangs for contract killings as violence over arms and drug trafficking rises across the Scandinavian country.
Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and Minister of Justice Gunnar Strömmer give a press conference after talks about the latest increase of gang related violence in Stockholm, Sweden. / Photo: AFP
"We have a situation where children are themselves contacting criminal gangs" offering to commit murders, Anders Thornberg told journalists on Friday.
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