2017 Stockholm truck attack
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| 2017 Stockholm attack | |
|---|---|
 The place where the truck hit pedestrians | |
  Åhléns department store 2017 Stockholm truck attack (Stockholm Municipality)  2017 Stockholm truck attack (Stockholm)  2017 Stockholm truck attack (Sweden) | |
| Location | Norrmalm, Stockholm, Sweden |
| Coordinates | 59°19′57.8″N 018°03′44.2″E / 59.332722°N 18.062278°E |
| Date | 7 April 2017 c. 14:53 Central European Summer Time (UTC+2) |
| Target | Civilians |
Attack type | Vehicle-ramming attack |
| Weapons | Stolen delivery truck |
| Deaths | 4+[1] |
| Injured | 15+ (9 serious)[1] |
The 2017 Stockholm attack was a presumed terror attack, which took place on 7 April 2017 at 14:53 Central European Summer Time (UTC+2). A man driving a hijacked beer delivery truck crashed through crowds along the Drottninggatan pedestrian street and smashed through the front of an Åhléns department store in central Stockholm, the capital city of Sweden. The attack killed at least four people and wounded several others.
Aftermath
Sweden's Prime Minister Stefan Löfven said the facts pointed to a terror attack and the police are treating the situation as such.[2] The Parliament House and the Stockholm subway system were locked down in response, and Stockholm Central Station was evacuated.[3] All trains to and from Stockholm's central station were cancelled, later to be resumed the same evening.[4] Löfven also stated that controls at Sweden's borders had also been tightened. Meanwhile, police in Norway stated that officers in the country's largest cities and at Oslo Airport will be armed.[5] Police patrols were also increased in Finland's capital Helsinki.[6]
Spendrups, the company that owned the delivery truck, reported the vehicle had been carjacked just moments before the attack while its driver was making deliveries to restaurant in Adolf Fredriks Kyrkogata. The original truck driver reported to police that he had attempted to stop the carjacker, and was injured in the process.[7][8]
Casualties
Four people died as a result of the attack.[1]
At least 15 people were injured, with nine of those being seriously injured.[1] Nina Nelson Follin, chief medical doctor at the Karolinska University Hospital, told Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter that the hospital was treating "a handful" of people, and that "the injuries are quite serious".[9]
Police investigation
Swedish police published pictures of a man with a hoodie wanted for questioning in connection to the attack. On Friday evening a man believed to be the same person was arrested in Märsta, north of Stockholm.[10] A spokesperson for the police stated that the man in custody was believed to have driven the truck.[11] Police officials later stated that the first suspect was only in the vicinity of the attack and not the one driving the truck. Another suspect meanwhile was taken into the custody with law enforcement stating that he was connected to the other suspect.[12][13]
See also
- List of terrorist incidents in April 2017
- List of vehicle-ramming attacks
- 2010 Stockholm bombings
- Murder (Swedish law)
References
- ^ a b c d "Four confirmed dead, one arrested over suspected terror attack – Radio Sweden". Sveriges Radio. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
Four people are confirmed dead, according to preliminary information from the police. One person had died in hospital, the Stockholm County Council Medical Director Johan Bratt confirmed to Swedish Radio on Friday evening. Bratt also confirmed 15 people are injured, nine of whom are seriously injured. Two of the injured are children.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "Four confirmed dead, one arrested over suspected terror attack - Radio Sweden". Sveriges Radio. 7 April 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
At a press conference in Stockholm at 9.15pm on Friday, the police stated the incident is being treated as a terror attack. [...] Prime Minister Stefan Löfven said: "Everything indicates this is a terror attack."
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ Masters, James; Sanchez, Ray (7 April 2017). "Stockholm truck attack kills 4; arrest made". CNN. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
Parliament and the Stockholm subway were placed in lockdown. All train services in and out of Stockholm Central Station were halted and people were evacuated, the state railway company said.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "Four confirmed dead, one arrested over suspected terror attack – Radio Sweden". Sveriges Radio. 7 April 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
National train services to and from Stockholm's Central Station were cancelled for several hours, but were resumed again late on Friday evening, with major delays.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ Anderson, Christina; Selsoe Sorensen, Martin (7 April 2017). "Stockholm Truck Attack Kills 4; Terrorism Is Suspected". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
The authorities said they did not know whether the episode was an isolated assault or something bigger. Mr. Lofven said controls at Sweden's borders had been tightened. Fears from the attack reverberated in neighboring Norway, where the police said on Twitter that officers in the nation's largest cities and at the airport in Oslo would be armed until further notice.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ Fouche, Gwaldys; Forsell, Tuomas (7 April 2017). "Norway police to carry weapons at Oslo airport and main cities after Stockholm attack". Reuters. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
Police in Norway's largest cities and at Oslo's airport will be carrying weapons until further notice following an attack in Stockholm on Friday, Norwegian police said in a tweet. Police officers in Norway, which borders Sweden, do not usually carry guns on them. In Finland, police increased patrols in the capital Helsinki.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ Anderson, Christina; Selsoe Sorensen, Martin (7 April 2017). "Stockholm Truck Attack Kills 4; Terrorism Is Suspected". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
The brewery's driver told the police that a masked man had stolen the vehicle, and that he had been injured trying to stop him, the authorities said.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ Keyton, David; Olsen, Jan M. (7 April 2017). "4 killed in Stockholm truck attack described as terrorism". AP News. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
The Swedish brewery Spendrups said one of its trucks had been hijacked a few blocks from the scene earlier in the day. "It is one of our delivery trucks. In connection with a delivery to a restaurant called Caliente, someone jumped into the truck and drove it away while the driver was unloading his delivery," Spendrups spokesman Marten Luth told the Swedish news agency TT. The beer company's truck driver was not injured, he said.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ Anderson, Christina; Sorensen, Martin (7 April 2017). "Stockholm Truck Attack Kills 4; Terrorism Is Suspected". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
The chief medical doctor at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Nelson Follin, told the newspaper Dagens Nyheter that the hospital was treating "a handful" of people. "The injuries are quite serious, but for now, I cannot give further comments on conditions," Dr. Follin said.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "Four confirmed dead, one arrested over suspected terror attack – Radio Sweden". Sveriges Radio. 7 April 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
A man was arrested in the northern Stockholm suburb of Märsta on Friday evening for some kind of involvement in the deed, the police confirmed at the press conference. The police had earlier released CCTV footage of a man wanted for questioning in connection with the suspected attack. The picture showed a man clad in a hooded jacket on an escalator in what appears to be the Stockholm metro. The police stressed he was not suspected of the deed, but was wanted for questioning. At the press conference on Friday evening, the police confirmed the man arrested is thought to be the person captured on CCTV. He is not thought to be the person who drove the lorry.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ Anderson, Christina; Sorensen, Martin Selsoe (7 April 2017). "Stockholm Truck Attack Kills 4; Terrorism Is Suspected". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
A nationwide manhunt conducted through much of the evening ended when the police "caught one person of particular interest," said Jan Evensson, the chief of regional police. On Saturday, a spokesman for the police, Lars Bystrom, said the man in custody was believed to have driven the truck.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ Perez, Chris (7 April 2017). "2nd suspect arrested in Stockholm truck attack". New York Post. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
- ^ Batchelor, Tom; Cockburn, Harry; Dearden, Lizzie; Ketish, Ben (7 April 2017). "Stockholm attack: Suspect is '39-year-old from Uzbekistan who supported Isis online'". The Independent. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
External links
Media related to 2017 Stockholm attack at Wikimedia Commons
