Deadly Shooting of Woman Carrying Child Shakes Sweden Awake
- Government faces pressure to deliver as fatal violence spikes
- Need for more police funding comes as economy is slowing
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When an 18-year-old woman was shot dead in Stockholm’s Vallingby suburb in late August, something snapped.
The murder, which followed a long spate of bombings and shootings by Swedish underworld gangs -- and most recently the killing of a mother carrying her child in the southern city of Malmo -- caused an unprecedented outcry. It also put law and order at the center of the political debate.