Stockholm (AFP) — A bus rammed into a bus stop queue during Stockholm’s afternoon rush hour Friday, killing three people and injuring three others, police said.

The driver had been arrested and a manslaughter investigation opened, according to police. But they gave no other details of the traumatic incident in the Ostermalm district of the Swedish capital.

Shortly after the crash, a swarm of police officers, ambulances and emergency vehicles descended on the scene. Media images showed rescue crews crouched under the double-decker bus, appearing to help people trapped underneath.

“The investigation will have to determine what happened. It’s too early to say and I don’t want to speculate,” police spokesperson Nadya Norton told AFP.

She said a manslaughter investigation had been opened an

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