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Lars Vilks, an artist and free speech activist whose cartoon depiction of the Prophet Muhammad on the body of a dog in 2007
made him the target of numerous assassination attempts, was killed in a car crash in Sweden on Sunday, the police said.
Mr. Vilks, who had been under police protection since 2010, was headed toward his home in southern Sweden
when the civilian police vehicle he was traveling in veered across the median and collided head-on with a truck,
killing Mr. Vilks, 75, and his two bodyguards, the police said.
The truck driver was taken to a hospital with serious injuries.
“We are looking at the possibility that it was a tire explosion,” Stefan Sinteus, a regional police official, said during a news conference on Monday.
“There is nothing at this point to indicate that this was an assassination.”
Mr. Sinteus said the two police officers who were killed in the crash had worked with Mr. Vilks for several years.
Full article https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/world/europe/lars-vilks-dead.html