A police car on its roof in Malmö - one of the police died, another hospital

The cause of the accident is still unclear. Police fatal accident causes are unclear. Stock. EPA / AOP

in the line of duty a police officer was killed in the Swedish city of Malmo on Tuesday, when the police car got into an accident and ended up on its roof. A police bulletin, according to both the people in the car the police was taken to hospital, where one of them, 45-year-old man, died.

He was a very valued colleague and friend. My thoughts are with his family, his friends and his colleagues in the house, the area police director of the Carina Persson said in the announcement.

Another police minor injuries.

the Patrol at the time of the alarm task. Expressen according to information obtained by a police car was involved in pursuit, but had lost track of his car.

Aftonbladet that it is not known whether the accident involved other vehicles and the preceding events are a certainty. According to the newspaper, some hundreds of yards from the scene of the accident was wrecked, facing the pole to drive a passenger car, which accounts for the events, the police are investigating.

in the Media released images and video on the basis of the road was free of snow and relatively dry. The accident happened around half past eight in the evening.

Police have promised to inform more in the morning.

Sweden is the Swedish broadcasting company last year, collected by the statistics, dead on duty in the century since the beginning of about a hundred police. By far the most common cause of death is car accident.