European nations Sweden, Denmark react to Erdogan speech over Saudi journo's murder

The leaders of Sweden and Denmark have reacted after Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saudi Arabia murdered Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi after plotting his death.

Stefan Lofven, Sweden's acting Prime Minister, says, "It seems very credible that something terrible has happened there, something horrible."

However, Lofven refrained from commenting further pending more facts, Sweden's TT news agency reported.

In neighbouring Denmark, Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen summoned the Saudi ambassador and said the meeting would be held "as soon as possible".

He said, "There are still a lot of unclear questions and I believe it is fair to give the ambassador the possibility to explain himself."

Samuelsen had earlier said there would be no official Danish participation in an investment conference in Saudi Arabia as "a natural consequence of the actual situation."