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Lars Vilks, Swedish artist threatened for Muhammad sketch, dies in crash

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STOCKHOLM - Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who had lived under police protection since making a sketch of the Prophet Muhammad with a dog’s body in 2007, died in a weekend car crash along with two police bodyguards, police said Monday.

He was 75.Vilks and two plainclothes officers were killed in a head-on crash with a truck on Sunday afternoon, said Carina Persson, the police chief for southern Sweden.

All three died on the spot. The 45-year-old truck driver was flown to a hospital with serious injuries.Persson said the police car, which was being driven by one of the bodyguards, had left Stockholm and was heading south when it veered into the path of the truck.

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