List of disasters in Sweden by death toll
Disaster Location Deaths Date Notes
Air disaster Umeå 9 14 July 2019 9 people were killed in the Skydive Umeå Gippsland GA8 Airvan crash
Explosion Järflotta 9 18 August 1948 An accident occurred at the second artillery piece in which nine people died . It was at a technical shooting when the pendulum pressure arose , probably due to great of a charge that blew up the mechanism and the artillery piece 's rear parts
Explosion off Lysekil 8 12 October 1944 Eight men were killed when the patrol boat Hjvb 256 Condor hit a naval mine off Lysekil
Shipwreck Lower Vättern 8 28 August 1961 In conjunction with a major fishing competition on Lake Lower Vättern in Skinnskatteberg , a small boat capsized in heavy weather and eight people drowned
Explosion Gyttorp 8 29 October 1964 Eight men died and 21 have to be taken to hospital after a double explosion in the explosives factory Nitroglycerin AB
Air disaster Lunde 8 9 December 1999 Eight people were killed when a two-engine Piper PA-31 Navajo propeller plane crashed shortly after 12:00 after take-off from Midlanda Airport
Shipwreck Hävringe 7 24 March 1944 The patrol boat Hjvb 232 Isbjörn capsized and sank in a storm on the road to Hävringe lighthouse . The pilot boat from Hävringe went out to the site and was able to save three of the ten occupants
Murder Falun 7 11 June 1994 Mattias Flink shot and killed five women and two men in Falun
Fire Rinkeby 7 25 July 2009 Shortly after 10.00 pm in the evening of 25 July 2009 , a fire destroyed an apartment on the ground floor of Kuddbygränd in Rinkeby . A mother and her five daughters were killed immediately . Later a relative of the family died in the hospital . The fire had started in a lamp
Fire Stockholm 7 March 1975 Seven patients were killed and 15 injured in a fire at S : t Eriks Hospital in Stockholm
Lightning Hamneda 7 1 July 1895 The lightning struck in a barn and killed seven people
Explosion Grundfors 7 14 March 1956 During work in an open lowering channel , an explosion occurred at the building of Grundfors Power Station , killing seven people and injuring three
Fire Eksjö 6 February 1954 Six people died in a fire at a retirement home in Eksjö
Explosion Karlberg Palace 6 29 July 1942 The Reserve Officer Course practiced mine-laying and demining at Karlberg Palace when some mines were triggered . Six cadets from Bohuslän Regiment died
Explosion Grängesberg 6 27 May 1926 At AB Expressdynamit 's facilities in Grängesberg a building exploded and the six people inside , six workers , were killed . The accident was considered to be caused by a metal that accidentally came with the pressing of a dynamite mass of 160 kg , wherein by the heat of friction generated , the dynamite was ignited
Explosion Gothenburg 6 3 April 1943 During work on a naval mine in a shed building within the mine workshop at Nya Varvet in Gothenburg , six men were killed
Explosion Gothenburg archipelago 6 13 December 1939 Six men were killed aboard the coastal defence ship HSwMS Manligheten in the Gothenburg archipelago during the salvage of a German paravane . Another 14 men received varying injuries
Gas leak Borlänge 5 6 April 1953 Five men in the hot blast cabin at Domnarvet Iron Works were killed when toxic gas leaked in after a leak in a water trap
Terrorism Stockholm 5 7 April 2017 2017 Stockholm truck attack . An Uzbek asylum seeker hijacked a truck and deliberately drove it into crowds of people in central Stockholm killing 5 and seriously wounding 14
Explosion Perstorp 5 29 May 1954 Five people were killed when a two-story building belonging to Skånska vinegar factory in Perstorp exploded . In the building there were machines for grinding down wood for use in plastic pulp
Significant incidents resulting in fewer than 10 deaths
This is a list of disasters and tragic events in modern Sweden sorted by death toll.