The Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, who stirred worldwide controversy in 2007 with drawings of prophet Muhammad cartoon killed in a car crash near the southern town of Markaryd.
Vilks, 75, who had been living under police protection since the drawings were published, was traveling in a police vehicle that collided with a truck. Two officers were also killed.
Vilks was largely unknown outside Sweden before his drawing.
In 2010, Swedish newspapers reprinted the cartoon after two Muslim men were arrested and subsequently charged in the Republic of Ireland in connection with an alleged plot to murder Vilks.
