Two killed in Sweden pub shooting: police

Two men were killed and more than ten were wounded after gunmen opened fire in a pub in a suspected gang-related attack in the Swedish city of Gothenburg late Wednesday, police said.
      
Customers inside the bar were watching football on television when the shootings took place.
      
"Two died and between ten and fifteen were wounded," police spokesman Bjoer Blixte told AFP, adding that up to four of those injured were in a serious but stable condition.
      
"We are assuming that this is gang-related and not a terrorist attack," he said.
      
"We've had similar problems with shootings for several years but never of this magnitude."        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 drug trade.
      
The shooting fitted a pattern of regular tit-for-tat retributions between rival gangs in areas with high immigrant populations in Gothenburg, Sweden's third-largest city.
      
The gunmen fled the scene by car and police are still hunting for them.
      
An eyewitness told the Aftonbladet tabloid that two people entered the pub in the Gothenburg suburb of Biskopsgaarden armed with weapons that looked like Kalashnikovs and started shooting.
      
Another witness said the shootings were over quickly.        

"I didn't have time to think what was happening. Then I saw that my friend was bleeding. I tried to stop the flow of blood as well as I could with my hands," a man who gave his name as "Rocky" told public broadcaster SVT.
      
There have been dozens of gang-related shootings in Gothenburg in recent years, many of them in the...