{"id":33776,"date":"2017-04-08T12:02:46","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T12:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/stockholm-truck-attack-man-held-for-terrorist\/"},"modified":"2017-04-08T12:02:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T12:02:44","slug":"stockholm-truck-attack-man-held-for-terrorist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/stockholm-truck-attack-man-held-for-terrorist\/","title":{"rendered":"Stockholm truck attack: Man held for ‘terrorist crimes’"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Swedish prosecutors say man arrested for ‘terrorist crimes’ after truck rammed into crowds in Stockholm, killing four.}<\/p>\n

Swedish police said on Saturday that a man arrested on “suspicion of terrorist crime” was likely to be the driver of a truck that ploughed into a crowd of people in central Stockholm a day earlier, killing four. <\/p>\n

“The person in question has been arrested as the culprit … in this case the driver,” Lars Bystrom, police spokesman, said.<\/p>\n

Swedish media reported police had arrested a second man and that he had a connection to the previously arrested person, citing police sources. The police declined to comment on whether it had arrested any additional suspects.<\/p>\n

The incident, which also left 15 people injured, occurred just before 13:00 GMT on Friday at the corner of the Ahlens department store and Drottninggatan, the Swedish capital’s biggest pedestrian street, above-ground from its central metro station.<\/p>\n

Sweden’s Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said everything indicated it was “a terror attack”.<\/p>\n

“We are thinking of the dead and the injured and their families. I am urging the public to be vigilant and keep updating the police,” Lofven said.<\/p>\n

The capital was paralysed with a huge security presence after the attack. Police told people to stay away from the centre of the city, and movie theatres as well as many shops were closed.<\/p>\n

The metro system was halted, train traffic from the nearby Central Station disrupted and thousands of people were seen walking across the city’s bridges with no alternative transportation available.<\/p>\n

Photos from the scene showed a beer truck sticking out of the department store. Swedish beer maker said one of its vehicles had been carjacked earlier on Friday as its driver was unloading goods at a restaurant.<\/p>\n

“We stood inside a shoe store and heard something … and then people started to scream,” witness Jan Granroth told the Aftonbladet daily.<\/p>\n

“I looked out of the store and saw a big truck.”<\/p>\n

Body-like forms covered by blankets were seen on Drottninggatan.<\/p>\n

The vehicle caught fire after driving through the busy pedestrian zone and slamming into the building.<\/p>\n

The European Union offered Sweden support and solidarity on Friday.<\/p>\n

“An attack on any of our member states is an attack on us all,” said EU chief executive Jean-Claude Juncker. “One of Europe’s most vibrant and colourful cities appears to have been struck by those wishing it – and our very way of life – harm.”<\/p>\n

A spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel said: “We stand together against terror.”<\/p>\n

Friday’s incident was near the site of a December 2010 attack in which Taimour Abdulwahab, a Swedish citizen who lived in Britain, detonated a suicide bomb, killing himself and injuring two others.<\/p>\n

Several attacks in which trucks or cars have driven into crowds have taken place in Europe in the past year.<\/p>\n

In London last month, a man in a car ploughed into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge, killing four, and then stabbed a policeman to death before being shot dead by police.<\/p>\n

In Nice, France, last July, a truck killed 86 people celebrating Bastille Day, and one in Berlin in December smashed through a Christmas market, killing 12 people.<\/p>\n

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Source:Al Jazeera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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