Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, who is known for his anti-Islamism and caused a great reaction in the Islamic world because of the Prophet Muhammad cartoons he drew, died in a traffic accident.
According to the news of the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, Lars Vilks and two guards died in a traffic accident. Swedish Police Chief, Anders Thornber, confirmed the incident in a statement and offered his condolences to the families of the police officers.
According to the news of Swedish state television SVT, 3 people were burned to death and one person was seriously injured in the vehicles that exploded and caught fire as a result of the collision of a truck and a car on the highway near the settlement of Markaryd in the Smaland region. It was noted that the injured person was the truck driver, and the people who died in the car were Lars Vilks and two police bodyguards.
