Probe as boy found hanging

POLICE have launched an attempted murder investigation after an 11-year-old Norwegian boy was found hanging in a tree in western Sweden with a rope around his neck.

Police spokesman Leif Hultman said the boy survived because he could just touch the ground with the tip of his toes.

He said the boy was playing on his own by the tree at a campsite in the town of Charlottenberg when he was surprised by “one or several people” who put the rope around his neck.