At least four people died and 15 more were injured after a truck drove into a crowd in Stockholm on Friday afternoon, the Swedish police said in a press conference. By 8 p.m. local time, a man was arrested in connection with the crime 25 miles from the Swedish capital.
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said it was believed to be “a terror attack,” according to the Associated Press.
Local newspaperAftonbladet reported that a man with minor injuries confessed to being behind the wheel of a hijacked truck. He was detained in Märsta, a suburb 25 miles north of Stockholm.
Earlier, the police were reportedly looking to speak with a man who was wearing a green jacket, white shoes, and a grey hoodie.
Police released a picture taken near the scene of the carnage Friday and urged people to call if they spotted him. They have not confirmed whether the man in the circulated picture was the same one that was arrested. By 8 p.m. local time, two people not identified as suspects were taken in for questioning, the local newspaper Aftonbladet reports.
“We do not know if this is an isolated incident or if we can expect anything more,” the police said at a press conference.
At about 3 p.m. local time, the truck drove into people on a busy street in central Stockholm and crashed into a department store. Aftonbladet reported that the Swedish beermaker Spendrups said one of its trucks had been hijacked earlier Friday.
The police evacuated the city’s main train station, where an operation is ongoing. Reports of a shooting in another part of town have surfaced, but the police have not confirmed those reports.
-Agencies
