Four people were killed and 15 injured when a stolen truck ploughed into a crowd of people outside a busy department store in central Stockholm Friday, police said, adding that one man had been arrested in connection with the attack.
It was the latest in a string of similar assaults with vehicles in Europe, including in London, Berlin, and the southern French city of Nice.
Children were among the injured, Stockholm’s regional health care authorities said in a statement.
“Sweden has been attacked. Everything points to a terror attack,” said Prime Minister Stefan Lofven, who cut short a visit in southwestern Sweden to return to Stockholm after what, if confirmed, would be the country’s first deadly terror attack.
A man was detained in a northern Stockholm suburb on Friday and later arrested on suspicion of having committed a terror crime.
Police on Saturday said the man arrested yesterday in relation to the attack is suspected of being the driver of the truck that killed four people.
“The person in question has been arrested as the culprit … in this case the driver,” police spokesman Lars Bystrom said, adding, “Then, there can be other people who are associated with him, but we do not know that at the current time.”
Police had earlier said two people had been taken in for questioning.
