Sweden vows Lindh murder won’t stop euro vote

A SHOCKED Sweden pushed ahead with plans for a referendum on the euro yesterday despite the murder of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh by a mystery knifeman.

Mourners put candles and red roses by campaign posters featuring 46-year-old Ms Lindh, who was stabbed on Wednesday at a department store a few blocks from where Prime Minister Olof Palme was assassinated in 1986. She died early yesterday.

Ms Lindh received injuries to the chest, abdomen and arm in the attack, and was rushed to the Karolinska Hospital on the outskirts of Stockholm Doctors fought throughout the night to save her life, but she died at 5.29am.