A 12-year-old child assassin has been detained in Sweden for allegedly shooting the wrong person in a £20,000 hit job.
The arrest comes after a 21-year-old man was murdered in a car in Malmö, southern Sweden.
But according to local reports, the child shot the wrong target and was supposed to hit someone else in the vehicle.
The 21-year-old was travelling in an Audi with his friends along Galgebacksvägen in Oxie, at around 10.30pm when the shooting occurred.
The fellow passengers then drove into the city centre and dumped the car on a residential street in Hindby.
They then contacted another person, who alerted cops to the shooting.
A murder probe identified a 12-year-old as the prime suspect and he was taken into custody on Tuesday, according to a report in South Sweden.
As he is below the age of legal responsibility, the suspect has been taken into care.
But, due to the severity of the alleged crime, prosecutor Caroline Carlquist has decided to initiate proceedings against the minor.
Court documents show the boy has been given legal counsel.
The horror shooting is one of many paid assignments the child assassin, from central Sweden, has allegedly received.
This particular hit offered up a hefty reward of £20,000 for the 12-year-old, Expressen claimed.
According to the court the suspect was sent to live with his grandmother by social services aged seven.
He is the youngest person to be suspected of committing a fatal shooting in Sweden, local media reports.
Sweden has been gripped by gang violence and recorded one of the highest numbers of gun deaths in Europe in recent years.
Now, Swedish gangsters are sending hitmen as young as 17 to sunny European hotspots for deadly working holidays where they carry out brutal executions in broad daylight.
Hits are particularly being carried out on the Costa del Sol and Costa Blanca.
Cops revealed that one 15-year-old Swedish national living in Alicante was “ordering murderers like someone orders a pizza” – luring other teenagers into brutal executions using aliases on Telegram and Signal.
It comes after Hamza Karimi, 25, was gunned down in front of shocked holidaymakers while enjoying some downtime in Marbella’s Puerto Banus earlier this month.
The Swedish “gangsta rap” artist, who went by the name Hamko, was talking on his phone outside a cafe when a suspected hitman calmly walked up to him and pulled out a gun.
The shooter, a 38-year-old Afghan-born Swede, fired up to a dozen rounds, with CCTV footage showing Karimi rolling on the floor in a bid to dodge the bullets.
He was rushed to hospital but died of his injuries.
His death is just the latest in a string of brazen gangland murders this year.
Marilo Valencia, spokeswoman for the Reformist Police Union, said this week: “Many of the gangsters come here, some to work, others simply to enjoy themselves.
“But when their enemies lower their guard, when they relax, the hitmen strike.”