Sweden hits record with 60 shot dead in 2022

FILE PHOTO: Flowers lie outside Malmo Latin School where two women were killed in Malmo, Sweden March 23, 2022. TT News Agency/Johan Nilsson via REUTERS

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sixty people have been shot dead in Sweden this year, a record in modern times, the government said on Monday.

Sweden has been hit by an epidemic of shootings in recent years which police and authorities blame on criminal gangs that operate in cities like the capital Stockholm.