Word: sabbatsberg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taxi driver heard the shots and immediately called for help. When police arrived, Mrs. Palme, herself grazed across the back by a bullet, said, "Don't you recognize me? My Olof has been shot." Within minutes Palme was rushed to Sabbatsberg Hospital, where doctors struggled in vain to keep him alive. At six minutes past midnight Saturday morning he was declared dead. Palme thus became the first Swedish leader to be killed since King Gustav III was shot to death at a masked ball at Stockholm's opera house...
Bystanders and Mrs. Palme tried to help the prime minister as he lay bleeding in the snow, and a taxi driver called for an ambulance and police. He was taken to Sabbatsberg Hospital, his wife at his side in the ambulance, and died on the operating table shortly after midnight, hospital sources said...
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