A person has died after falling overboard from a ship off Göteborg, reports Göteborgs-Posten.
The police are investigating the incident as a suspected murder, but do not yet know what happened.
The circumstances surrounding what happened are unclear at present, the person was taken ashore by helicopter and has subsequently died, says Fredrik Svedemyr, the police's press spokesperson, to GP.
It was on Thursday afternoon that the alarm came about a person who had fallen overboard from a foreign merchant ship west of Göteborg.
I'm not sure if we have information yet on who this person is, but we have not been able to contact relatives, says Fredrik Svedemyr.