‘Stateless American’ found on raft

SWEDISH authorities are trying to solve the puzzle surrounding a man calling himself a “stateless American” who was found floating on a raft in the waters between Denmark and Norway on Friday.

The man claimed he had been thrown off a ship several days earlier.

He was found by a Norwegian oil tanker on Friday morning, floating in the Skagerak sea on a raft made up of four oil barrels held together by a frame of wooden planks.