Ambulance Nurse Killed in Harmånger: Community in Shock

The ambulance nurse came to help, but was attacked and killed. The day after, the neighbors in the small community of Harmånger try to take in what has happened. I understood pretty quickly who it was that did this, says neighbor Roger Norin Wiik.

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Ambulance Nurse Killed in Harmånger: Community in Shock
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The lights are burning on the lawn outside the gate.

Here, the dying ambulance nurse received first aid, before she was driven at high speed back to Hudiksvall Hospital.

It feels important to light a candle for her. I work myself in the healthcare system and recognize the anxiety that exists about threats and violence, says Anette Nilsson who lives in the area.

We are several who have been here today, and it is noticeable that people are very downcast, she continues.

Did not get to come home

Roger Norin Wiik lives in the same house where the attack took place. He did not sleep a wink after the incident.

It has been a lot to process, how it can happen so close to one, and that a person one has partly grown up with can commit such an act.

A man in his 25s who lives in the house has been detained, suspected of murder.

We went to elementary school and spent seven years of our lives together.

Roger Norin Wiik was himself on his way to an errand when he received a message that something unthinkable had happened at home.

I was called by the police who said that I was not allowed to come home. Then the news started coming in.

The church has been open during the day and the local football association has invited people to gather.

One thinks that such things only happen in larger cities, not out here in the countryside.

It's not that people close their eyes to what has happened, rather the opposite. One does not clench one's fist in one's pocket and move on. One acknowledges it, and devotes one's time and thought to what has occurred.

No gloomy village

He describes Harmånger as a calm and safe community where people know each other. A typical suburb of a small town.

This is a lot of negative publicity, it can't be ignored. It may make people regard it as a gloomy village. While there is actually a relatively large sense of optimism here anyway.

Roger Norin Wiik works as a truck driver and needs sleep before his next drive.

No one should have to die at work, regardless of what profession one has. It's extremely tragic, that those who are supposed to help are the ones who have to give their lives.

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