Sweden: Truck Rams Into Shopping Centre, Kills 2
No fewer than 2 people have been killed with several others injured after a truck drove into a crowd at a shopping center in Sweden on Friday, Swedish police said.
Police said the vehicle crashed into pedestrians on the street outside a shopping centre, central Stockholm.
The incident took place at Ahlens Mall in Klarabergsgatan, shortly before 3pm, local time.
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A shocked witness told Swedish Television News they saw two people lying on the ground after the truck ploughed through the pedestrian street, the Independent reports.
They said: “We walked past and then there are two people on the ground.
“Then the truck continued on Drottninggatan, then we did not see where it went.”
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said everything indicates that the Stockholm truck crash is “a terror attack”, adding that one person has been arrested.
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The truck is understood to have been stolen or hijacked from a Swedish brewery company Spendrups.
“It’s one of our distribution vehicles which runs deliveries. During a delivery to the restaurant Caliente someone jumped into the driver’s cabin and drove off with the car, while the driver unloads,” Spendrups communication director Mårten Lyth said.
Swedish police are urging people to avoid the city centre and the subway has been shut down.
