A masked gunman opened fire at a barbershop in the Swedish university town of Uppsala, 40 miles northwest of Stockholm, shooting dead three young people in an apparent gang killing. A suspect is under arrest.

Swedish police said a masked gunman carried out a shooting that killed three people. The motive of the shooting was as of yet unclear, with police investigating it as a homicide.

A shootout at a Swedish hair salon has left at least three people dead in an eruption of violence that has heightened nerves over gun violence in the Scandinavian nation, according to police and media reports.