Two killed in Sweden gang-related pub shooting

Two men were killed and more than 10 were wounded after gunmen burst into a pub firing automatic weapons in a suspected gang-related attack in the Swedish city of Gothenburg late March 18.
      
Customers in the bar were watching football on television when at least two gunmen, reportedly wearing skeleton masks and yellow high visibility vests, launched their shooting spree.
      
"We are assuming that this is gang-related and not a terrorist attack," police spokesman Bjoer Blixter told AFP.
      
"We've had similar problems with shootings for several years but never of this magnitude."        A manhunt is under way for the assailants who fled by car after the shooting in a predominantly immigrant area of Sweden's second city.
      
Gothenburg police said they have launched a murder investigation and are questioning a large number of people but no arrests have been made.         "They aimed directly at people... at their heads," a pub employee told the Aftonbladet tabloid of the attack.
      
Blixter said two people in their 20s died and between 10 and 15 others were wounded, but the death toll could rise. The injured were aged between 20 and 60.
      
Sahlgrenska University Hospital said it was treating eight people, including one with life-threatening injuries and two in serious but stable condition.
                     
Sweden and neighbouring Denmark have a longstanding problem with criminal gangs, including Hells Angels, Bandidos and several immigrant groups which battle for control of the local drugs trade and protection rackets.
      
The shooting fitted a pattern of regular tit-for-tat retributions between rival gangs in areas with high immigrant populations in Gothenburg, which...