Stockholm bus crash: Several people killed as bus hits pedestrians

London: A city bus has slammed into pedestrians in central Stockholm in a horror scene that left several dead and others badly injured.

Police arrested the driver and said they were treating the deaths as manslaughter after the double-decker vehicle rammed people waiting at a bus stop, with some accounts claiming it swerved toward the victims.

Police stand at the scene where double-decker bus crashed into a bus shelter in Stockholm. Credit: AP

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson confirmed that several people were killed and said the victims included people who might have been on their way home to family and friends.

“We do not yet know the cause of this, but right now my thoughts are primarily with those who have been affected and their loved ones,” he wrote on X.

“Police, amb