STOCKHOLM: Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who stirred worldwide controversy in 2007 with drawings impertinent sketches of the Holy Prophet Mohammad (S.A.W), was killed in a car crash near the southern town of Markaryd on Sunday, police said.
Vilks, 75, who had been living under police protection since the drawings were published, was travelling in a police vehicle which collided with a truck. Two police officers were also killed.
It is now important to all of us that we do everything we can to investigate what happened and what caused the collision,” Swedish police said in a statement on Monday.
“Initially, there is nothing that points to anyone else being involved.”
