Outcry in Sweden after 12-year-old-girl killed by stray bullet

Increase in police and tougher punishments promised after child dies following apparent gangland shooting near Stockholm

Swedish officials have promised more police and tougher punishments amid public outrage after a 12-year-old girl was killed by a stray bullet in an apparent gangland shooting at a petrol station car park south of Stockholm.

I am aware no words are enough for those who have lost a child in this awful way, but I still want to we share your grief in these difficult times," the home affairs minister, Mikael Damberg, told the national news agency TT.