Sweden Police arrest a man of carrying out Stockholm truck attack

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Police in Sweden have arrested a man in connection with a recent deadly attack in the country’s capital, where a truck rammed into a department store, leaving four people dead and 15 others injured

“One person has been arrested on suspicion of terrorist crimes through murder,” said Karin Rosander, a spokesperson for the Swedish prosecutor’s office, on Saturday

The truck had plowed into a crowd outside the busy Ahlens department store on the central street of Drottninggatan in Stockholm on Friday. The driver fled the scene, and security forces launched an operation to find him and other potential suspects, leading to the arrest of the one individual

According to police, the arrestee is a 39-year-old man of Uzbek origin that “matched the description” of the suspected driver as captured in photos apparently by closed-circuit cameras

police said later on Saturday that the arrestee is likely “the culprit” of the attack, i.e. the driver of the truck

Swedish media said the Uzbek suspect (pictured below) was a supporter of the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group but police have yet to confirm that assertion

The deadly assault was Sweden’s first but was the latest in a series of similar attacks with vehicles elsewhere in Europe, including the southern French city of Nice, the German capital of Berlin, and the British capital, London

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has called the Friday assault “a terror attack.”

“Terrorists want us to be afraid, want us to change our behavior, want us to not live our lives normally, but that is what we’re going to do. So terrorists can never defeat Sweden, never,” he said

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