Swedish woman 'locked up daughters for 10 years'

Swedish police have arrested a woman on suspicion of keeping her three adult daughters locked up amid media reports that they were confined for at least a decade.

Police suspected the 59-year-old woman had "restricted her children's freedom... for quite a few years" in the small southern Swedish town of Bromölla, spokeswoman Ewa-Gun Westford told AFP.

She later confirmed to The Local that the women were all between the ages of 20 and 30. Regional newspaper Sydsvenskan reported their ages as 32, 24 and 23.

"We got a report at half past five on Wednesday evening. A worried citizen called the police and claimed that someone had kept three children locked up for many years," she said.

"The woman was arrested on Thursday morning," she added.

 Bromölla is best known in Sweden for being the home town of singer and television star Sanna Nielsen, who competed for Sweden in Eurovision 2014. It is a quiet town of fewer than 8000 residents. To neighbours, Thursday's events came as a shock. Full story...

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