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Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, whose depiction of the Prophet Muhammad prompted death threats and outrage, was killed in a car crash alongside two police officers assigned to protect him.
Lars Vilks, 75, was killed in Sweden on Sunday when the police car he was travelling in veered onto the wrong side of the road and collided with a truck.
Lars Vilks had lived under police protection since making a sketch of the Prophet Muhammad with a dog's body in 2007. He died in a weekend car crash along with
Swedish artist Lars Vilks, whose 2007 sketch of the Prophet Muhammad with a dog’s body brought death threats, has died in a traffic accident.
Prophet Mohammed cartoonist dies in car crash