| Series Title | The Local.se |
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| Series Details | 07.04.17 |
| Publication Date | 07/04/2017 |
| Content Type | News |
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A truck crashed into a crowd of people outside the Ahlens department store in Stockholm on the 7 April 2017. Reports suggested that four people had been killed and fifteen injured. Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven described the incident as a 'terror attack'. The authorities confirmed on the 9 April 2017 that the nationalities of the four killed in the attack were two Swedes, a Belgian and a British man. They also confirmed that they had arrested the suspected driver of the lorry at the time of the attack - a 39-year-old man from Uzbekistan. He was an asylum seeker facing deportation, who had expressed sympathy for the Islamic State. Swedish media named the suspect as Rakhmat Akilov. Authorities arrested a second man in connection with the truck attack on the 23 April 2017. There were reports on the 24 April 2017 that Sweden's red-green government was have discussions with some other political parties to agree on proposals to tighten laws against terrorism. The use of lorries in incidents of a terrorist nature in Europe was becoming more common: + Nice, July 2016 |
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| Source Link | Link to Main Source https://www.thelocal.se/20170407/deaths-and-many-injured-in-stockholm-truck-attack |
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| Subject Categories | Security and Defence |
| Countries / Regions | Sweden |
