Swedish foreign minister stabbed by knife

[Gramphos]

I voted yes some time ago... Don't remember what day it was.

[Kropotkin]

They claimed that the number of people that voted at the post office has been record high. I heard the figure 1.3 million voters.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Kropotkin
They claimed that the number of people that voted at the post office has been record high. I heard the figure 1.3 million voters.

Wow, out of 7 million voters ! You sure have an efficient postal-voting system

[Kropotkin]

Well, it's not Florida after all

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by Spiffor
Wow, out of 7 million voters ! You sure have an efficient postal-voting system

It's alomost easier to vote in a post office than vorting in the actual voting locales. (As long as you have all the papers needed and know what you need to do)

[Spiffor]

Gotta be the climate.

[Henrik]

I would've voted yes if I was old enough to vote...

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Asuka
Gee. It looks like the public discussion will be about how good the health care was at the Karolinska hospital, rather than discussing why we have this kind of hitmans that clearly are on loose after previously done something probably similar.

From what I've heard one of the wounds went into her liver, and that was probably the fatal one. Wounds of the liver can sometimes be impossible to repair because of the anatomy of the liver and it's circulation. The liver receives two sources of blood, one is the Portal vein, which brings nutrient rich blood from the intestines for the liver to process. The other, the Hepatic artery is a branch off one of the main arteries originating from the Aorta. Blood from the liver drains into the Inferior Vena Cava via tweo or three Hepatic Veins. The Hepatic veins are very short, because the liver actually abuts right on the Inferior Vena Cava. The point at which these veins enter the IVC is just below the daphragm, the sheet of muscle which seperates the abdominal cavity from the thoracic cavity. If you manage to cut one of the Hepatic Veins it's almost impossible to repair because there is no way to get at it without removing the liver. Since you can't remove the liver without having a suitable donor immediately available then a surgeon confronted with such a wound, whether at the Karolinska Institute or at Massachusetts General Hospital, or Johns Hopkins Hospital can do no more than literally watch the patient die on the operating table. Actually, if the wound really lacerates the vein at the junction with the IVC even having a transplant available would not help, since there might not be enough of a stump of the Hepatic Vein left to clamp off, and clamping the IVC at that level is nearly impossible because it's buried inside the diaphragm.

This is not to say that all liver lacerations carry such a grave prognosis. Many of such wounds are repairable. I'd also like to point out that none of us know exactly where her liver wound was. It may be that a better surgeon might hve saved her, it may be that she developed unfortunate complications, like an air embolism or a bleeding disorder, or it may be that her wound was beyond the best of surgical science.

[Chemical Ollie]

A peculiar co-incidence is the twin-like similarity between Crown Princess Victoria's boyfriend Daniel (left) and the murder suspect (right). THAT would be the scandal of the millennium!

[statusperfect]

http://www.expressen.se/expressen/js...?d=737&a=61893

[Kitschum]

There's been an arrest just now of a man which newspaper Expressen claims is the man on the pictures ("the man from NK"). Police press conference in an hour...

http://expressen.se/expressen/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=737&a=62928

Meanwhile, state television news show Rapport (via SVT Text) writes that it is not the man on the pictures according to information they have received.

http://www.svt.se/texttv/106.html

Developing...

[Kitschum]

"TV4 Nyheterna" news show confirms, via unofficial sources, that the man from NK has been arrested by police at lunchtime in a raid in Stockholm. They say that a relative of the man's was arrested at the same time and a report to a news agency ("TT") claims that a patrol is on its way to his girlfriend's to take her in too. But like I said, there has been no official confirmation as of yet and even denials by police officials. We'll probably have to wait for the press conference due in 40 minutes for clarification.

[Kitschum]

Just now, Rapport (on SVT) said that their information is that a man in his 30s has been arrested "in his absence". 30 minutes to the press conference.

[Kropotkin]

Ha! The parody continues...

[Kitschum]

Yah. At least they deny that they have anyone in their custody, but every other interesting question they refuse to answer. They say they're in an "intensive phase" of the investigation, which would explain why some of the people that used to be present at press conferences weren't there today. I figure they made a minor breakthrough but don't want to spoil it by jumping the gun - like some of the news media did.