Around 12,000 people were affected by a power outage in Oxelösund, a town in Sweden, on Sunday evening, according to Dagens Nyheter.
The Swedish news outlet reported the outage in a brief bulletin published at 20:12 GMT on 4 October 2026. Dagens Nyheter did not give a cause for the loss of electricity, and it did not say when supply was expected to return.
Oxelösund is a coastal town in Södermanland County, south of Stockholm. The reported figure of 12,000 affected suggests the disruption covered a substantial share of the local population.
No further details were available in the initial report. It is not yet known whether the outage was linked to a fault in the local grid, weather conditions, or another cause, and there has been no word on injuries or other incidents connected to the loss of power.
The same day's Swedish news coverage also included separate reports from TV4 Nyheterna, Expressen and Omni about four incidents in which people were shot at with green lasers in Skåne. Those reports are unconnected to the Oxelösund outage as far as the available material shows.
What to watch next: whether Dagens Nyheter or the local grid operator confirms the cause of the outage and gives a timeline for restoring power to the roughly 12,000 affected residents.
