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Two dead in knife attack at IKEA store in Sweden


    STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Two people were killed and one seriously injured in a knife attack at an IKEA store in the city of Vesteras, about an hour west of the Swedish capital Stockholm, police said on Monday.

    Police said they had received a call reporting injuries at the IKEA store at around 1300 CET (1100 GMT).

    "We found a man and a woman who had knife injuries and who later died of their wounds," Vastmanland police said in a statement.

    Another person was seriously injured.

    The police said they had taken a man into custody suspected of murder.

    (Reporting by Simon Johnson)