{"id":48528,"date":"2021-10-04T20:30:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=48528"},"modified":"2021-10-04T20:30:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T15:00:31","slug":"swedish-cartoonist-who-drew-drawings-depicting-prophet-muhammad-p-b-u-h-killed-in-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=48528","title":{"rendered":"Swedish cartoonist who drew drawings depicting Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H) killed in car crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lars Vilks had lived under police protection since depicting Islam\u2019s revered figure with the body of a dog in 2007.<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Lars Vilks, the Swedish artist who stirred worldwide controversy in 2007 with drawings depicting the Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H) has been killed in a car crash. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"Vilks worked as an artist for almost four decades and rose to fame after producing several controversial works [File: Reuters]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 75-year-old died on Sunday in an accident near the southern town of Markaryd, Swedish police said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vilks, who had lived under police protection since the drawings were published, was travelling in a police car that collided with a truck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The car, which had left Stockholm and was heading south, veered into the path of the truck and both vehicles burst into flames.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two police officers were also killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The truck driver was flown to a hospital with serious injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police said they did not know why the car drove into the wrong lane but they were investigating whether a tyre might have exploded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The car transporting Vilks had puncture-proof tyres, police said. However, exploded tyre remains were reportedly found on the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cInitially, there is nothing that points to anyone else being involved.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SOURCE: NEWS AGENCIES<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by Kashmir Today staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lars Vilks had lived under police protection since depicting Islam\u2019s revered figure with the body of a dog in 2007. Lars Vilks, the Swedish artist who stirred worldwide controversy in 2007 with drawings depicting the Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H) has been killed in a car crash. Vilks worked as an artist for almost four decades and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}