Arrest in Stockholm Truck Attack: 'We Think He Is the Driver'

STOCKHOLM The Swedish police said on Saturday that they had arrested a man believed to have hijacked a beer truck and driven it into a crowd of people in Stockholm the day before unleashing bloodshed and panic in a terrorist attack on the streets of the capital.The Swedish prosecutor and police officials did not identify the suspect or confirm his nationality. But Radio Sweden and other news outlets reported that he was a 39-year-old from Uzbekistan. We have one person in custody and we think he is the driver of the truck Lars Bystrom a spokesman for the regional police said Saturday.The man was detained in a northern Stockholm suburb on Friday and later arrested on suspicion of having committed a terror crime the police said. Continue reading the main story The 39-year-old man who was arrested is likely to be the driver who killed four people in Stockholm as police say a homemade bomb was found inside the truck. Police bomb disposal experts found the improvised explosive device packed into a suitcase inside the hijacked beer truck.The discovery of the bomb points to a planned terror attack rather than an opportunistic attack. It is not known why the IED failed to detonate. Police have said the man man has been arrested and held in charges of carrying out a terror attack in which a stolen beer truck was driven at high speed into the entrance of a department store. more videos 1 2 3 Watch video Walking dead?: New Spice strain turns man into zombie Watch video Bus driver KICKS passenger after throwing him off the bus Watch video Couple caught getting frisky in university building Watch video Moment models go surfing in nothing but painted wetsuits Watch video Cute Chinese kid owns Little Big Shots stage with his Latin dance Watch video Girl found living with monkeys can t walk or talk like humans Watch video Girl in India found living with monkeys dubbed Mowgli 2.0 Watch video An Indian girl living in the woods remains unknown to police Watch video Freeedom! Tiny Scottish woman picks a fight in McDonalds Watch video Horseplay! 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Witnesses described seeing up to a dozen police cars swoop and arrest the man This is the truck which was used to kill at least four people - and injure eight - after a terrorist drove into crowds of people in the Swedish capital on Friday Police cordoned off the street (pictured on Saturday) as they continued to investigate the suspected terror attack in Stockholm On Saturday - the day after the suspected terror attack - police officers stood on the street where a man drove into a crowd of pedestrians killing at least four people A female police officer stood outside a property in western Stockholm as it was being raided in relation to the suspected terror attack in the capital Police officers are seen in Hjulsta suburb in Stockholm after a raid following a suspected terror attack on the Drottninggatan Street in central Stockholm A distraught man puts his hand over his face as he looks at flowers which were left at the scene following the attack in Sweden A woman attended the scene in Stockholm this morning after at least four were killed in a suspected terror attack in Sweden Four people were killed and 15 injured. Eight people remain in hospital. Police sources in Stockholm confirmed the discovery of the homemade bomb. Meanwhile fears are growing for an 11-year-old girl who is missing after yesterday s attack.The child who has not yet been named has not been seen since the atrocity and is thought to have been walking along Drottninggatan high street at the time. A relative told the Expressen newspaper that police have visited the girl s house asking to collect her DNA. Police have not yet confirmed whether she was caught up in the atrocity but friends and family are said to be desperate for information. There are fears that other children and babies may have been injured or killed in the attack after reports that a pram was seen thrown into the air by the rampaging lorry. A 17-year-old boy who was arrested last night along with his mother have both been released this morning the Expressen newspaper has reported.It is understood that the main suspect a 39-year-old man had previously lived at their address in north Stockholm.The boy s mother said that the terror suspect had not been living there despite being registered at the property. Swedish police today praise two anonymous hero witnesses after they followed the terror suspect following yesterday s atrocity. One woman saw the man on a commuter train in the minutes after the attack and immediately alerted police but the man ran away before she could pursue him. Later an unnamed man spotted the suspect at a nearby petrol station in Märsta a suburb of Stockholm. The witness recognised the man from pictures released in the media and followed him in his car. A police source told the Aftonbladet newspaper: If he hadn t done this we wouldn t have found him as fast as we did. A nearby patrol was alerted and officers were scrambled to intercept the suspect who was arrested close to nearby Arlanda airport yesterday evening. Speaking in a mixture of Russian and Swedish the suspect confessed to the crime as soon as he was apprehended police have said. According to broadcaster SVT this suspect was arrested in the northern suburb Hjulsta and he is said to be connected to the man who was arrested earlier in the evening (see video above) Swedish police are continuing to hunt the driver of a 30-tonne stolen truck that ploughed into shoppers in Stockholm killing four and injuring 15 Swedish police confirmed earlier on Friday that it had identified a person arrested in another Stockholm suburb and who resembled the picture and description of a man that police went public with after the truck attack Officers said the suspect arrested first on Friday evening resembled the man in photos they issued as part of an earlier appeal (left and right) This medic wearing green overalls was seen running outside Ahlens a department store in Klarabergsgatan covering bodies with orange blankets The hijacked vehicle crashed into a packed shopping centre and burst into flames. This photo shows shoppers fleeing the scene Armed police swarm around the truck which was reported stolen from Spendrups Brewery. The foam is from a fire extinguisher that officers used to put out the flames This image shows the beer truck being towed out of the Ahlens department store on Friday evening during recovery work after the incident The shattered truck was pulled away by a recovery van under the watchful eye of heavily-armed police officers A man in scrubs was seen walking along the street with several bodies which have been covered by blankets behind him. At least four people have died This image shows an injured person being carried from the chaotic scenes at Ahlens a department store in Stockholm where the lorry crashed The back of the truck sticking out of the shopping centre is seen here moments after ramming several people as they were out shopping Memorial candles are left outside the Swedish Embassy in Helsinki Finland. Others took to social media to voice their tributes Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has laid a bouquet of red roses and lit a candle outside the Ahlens store. He said: We know that our enemies are these atrocious murderers and not each other The Prime Minister added: Our message will always be clear: you will not defeat us you will not govern our lives you will never ever win Shoppers described how severed limbs and bodies were left littered across a blood-splattered Stockholm street yesterday in a scene reminiscent of a warzone And this morning flowers were laid at the spot where the lorry ploughed into the department store.Mourners flocked to the popular shopping street to pay tribute to the dead hours after the attack which left 15 others injured.Moving images show tearful people placing bouquets of flowers and fastening single roses to railings at the edge of the police cordon.A message of solidarity on a placard next to them reads: Je suis Stockholm.. Other photos show debris scattered on the street and police cars remain at the scene which is cordoned off. It comes after footage showed the moment Swedish police snared a suspected Isis fanatic following a high-speed chase and arrested him in relation to the attack.The father-of-four was arrested on suspicion of terrorist crimes through murder Swedish prosecutors said on Saturday. Police have said he is likely to be the driver. The man believed to be from Uzbekistan was wearing a balaclava with broken glass on his clothes. He reportedly confessed to being involved in the atrocity.Police suspect he was behind the wheel of the truck although other security sources reported in Swedish media said the driver is still at large.He had posted Isis propaganda on Facebook and liked pictures of casualties after the terrorist attack on the Boston Marathon in 2013 Aftonblat reported.A further arrest was made at 11pm last night in the Stockholm suburb of Hjulsta according to Swedish newspaper Expressen.Pictures show the second man who looked younger being handcuffed and taken away in a police car. According to Swedish television the two arrested men are linked.Photographer Janne Akkeson who witnessed the arrest in Hjulsta said: There were about 15 police cars at the scene. There was a specialist terrorist SWAT team and sniffer dogs. During the attack http://buybacklinksz.ampblogs.com/How-to-Get-Edu-Backlinks-6364487 which happened around 2.45pm local time a hijacked 30-tonne truck ploughed down pedestrians before crashing into a shopping centre and bursting into flames.One witness said a pram was hurled into the air and desperate pedestrians ran for their lives as the lorry crushed everything in its path. Two men were tackled to the ground and arrested. Police questioned them but said they were not suspected of any crime. Police released CCTV of the man who ran away who was wearing a green jacket white shoes and a grey hoodie.Officers said the first suspect arrested on Friday evening in Marsta resembled the man in the appeal photos.Hundreds of shoppers had to flee for their lives after the articulated lorry rammed into the corner of the Ahlens department store.Horrifying images of the aftermath showed blood smeared on the roads and bodies covered by blankets.Following the lorry crash armed terrorists were seen running into Stockholm s Central railway station and opening fire. Two people were also said to have been stabbed. People were seen running for their lives after a truck crashed into Ahlens a department store in Klarabergsgatan at around 3pm local timeSpendrups Brewery said the truck belonged to its company and was stolen.The vehicle s original driver who has not been named was hurt in the hijacking after trying to cling to the vehicle.He had climbed out of the cab while delivering its cargo of beer. At least one man wearing a balaclava took the chance to climb in and drove off knocking the victim over as he tried to get back on board. He was injured but not seriously.Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has laid a bouquet of red roses and lit a candle outside the Ahlens store. The terror attack came just 16 days after the Westminster Bridge killer Khalid Masood used a car to murder five people before stabbing a policeman to death outside Parliament.Last year ISIS terrorists used trucks to kill dozens in Berlin and Nice. After yet another terror attack on European soil MailOnline understands:Terror suspect jumped into cab of a beer lorry while its driver was making a deliveryMasked man sped through central Stockholm aiming at pedestrians before crashing into the Åhlens department store on Klarabergsgatan. At least four people died and 15 were injuredWitnesses heard shots fired and two suspects were filmed being detained in the streetA 39-year-old father-of-four was arrested in the northern suburb of MarstaAnd there was a further arrest of a younger man at 11pm in nearby Hjulsta RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 2 Next Trump at war: White House reveals president s improvised... Did Russia hit hospital to cover up Syrian gas horror? New... Dash from death: Panicked shoppers run inside a store to... Spain ramps up border checks with Gibraltar under Schengen... Share this article Share This photo shows two men being apprehended by Stockholm Police around the time of the attack. Witnesses said one of these men is the driver but this has not been confirmed by officers A man is detained inside the police security cordon. Prime Minister Stefan Löfven said everything pointed to the incident being a terror attack A man is carried away by officers wearing suits as a policewoman armed with a pistol watches on. Swedish police carry handguns as standard A heavily-armed policeman sprints across the road near the department store. Security is being beefed up in other European cities in the wake of the attack more videos 1 2 3 Watch video Walking dead?: New Spice strain turns man into zombie Watch video Bus driver KICKS passenger after throwing him off the bus Watch video Couple caught getting frisky in university building Watch video Moment models go surfing in nothing but painted wetsuits Watch video Cute Chinese kid owns Little Big Shots stage with his Latin dance Watch video Girl found living with monkeys can t walk or talk like humans Watch video Girl in India found living with monkeys dubbed Mowgli 2.0 Watch video An Indian girl living in the woods remains unknown to police Watch video Freeedom! Tiny Scottish woman picks a fight in McDonalds Watch video Horseplay! Stallion loves zipping and unzipping girl s jumper Watch video Dangerous: Race marshal pushed through road on bonnet of car Watch video Shocking moment motorcyclist flips over in destructive crash Witnesses described how severed limbs and bodies were left littered across the blood-splattered Drottninggatan in a scene reminiscent of a warzone .Many told how they had been browsing in busy stores when the lorry came hurtling towards them.One told of bodies and blood everywhere and even a dead dog with its owner screaming beside it.Nils Bengtsson told of the moment when he realised it was a terror attack: I heard a loud bang and people screaming he said. BRITISH TOURIST WITNESSED THE ATTACK A British journalist who was on holiday in Stockholm described seeing lifeless bodies covered with towels after the suspected terror attack.Harriet Rose-Gale 26 from Marlborough Wiltshire was eating her lunch when a truck ploughed into pedestrians in the centre of the city.She said: I walked up the road and we could just see a lorry a truck and what we could only assume was a lifeless body in front of it. It had a peach or orange towel covering it and there was another body with a white sheet in the middle of the road. There were armed police running past us and shouting in Swedish. I don t know what they were saying. I then saw the truck coming towards me. Then I started to think about what happened in Nice and realised that the same thing is happening here in front of me. The truck was driving really fast and drove towards people at full force. I was about 100 metres 300ft from where the truck crashed. I was afraid about what I might see but I wanted to help so I left the shop and walked out and I was met by chaos. There were injured people everywhere around the truck. People around me were in shock. Everyone was crying and screaming. It felt like being in a warzone. There were several hundred people on the street. I saw at least three or four dead bodies on the street where the truck had crashed. Christoffer Ung told TT news agency: I was on my way to the exit and just saw the wall coming towards us like an avalanche. People turned in panic and fled towards the exits. My first thought was that a bomb had exploded. When I came out of the building I saw flames emerging from it. Store manager Malin Emto said: Suddenly there was a customer who had a panic attack and started screaming. We ran to the window and saw two dead bodies badly mangled. Besarta Gashi 31 who is pregnant said she and her nine-year-old daughter Leonida were feet from being crushed by the lorry. We heard screams. We started to run but did not know where it came from. Just then the truck came a hair s breadth away from us she said. I jumped away and pulled back my sister and daughter. They had just enough time to get away. I saw parts flying... many dead on the ground. A girl under the truck who could not escape. At first she feared that she had lost her unborn baby but was last night told by doctors that the child had survived. more videos 1 2 3 Watch video Walking dead?: New Spice strain turns man into zombie Watch video Bus driver KICKS passenger after throwing him off the bus Watch video Couple caught getting frisky in university building Watch video Moment models go surfing in nothing but painted wetsuits Watch video Cute Chinese kid owns Little Big Shots stage with his Latin dance Watch video Girl found living with monkeys can t walk or talk like humans Watch video Girl in India found living with monkeys dubbed Mowgli 2.0 Watch video An Indian girl living in the woods remains unknown to police Watch video Freeedom! Tiny Scottish woman picks a fight in McDonalds Watch video Horseplay! Stallion loves zipping and unzipping girl s jumper Watch video Dangerous: Race marshal pushed through road on bonnet of car Watch video Shocking moment motorcyclist flips over in destructive crash A view of the site where the truck drove into Åhlens department store in Klarabergsgatan left and right. The foam seen right is from a fire extinguisher used to dampen the flames Blood was seen on the streets outside of the shopping centre where at least four people were killed and 15 more injured Emergency services were seen tending to injured people and putting blankets over those who had been killed The lightly injured suspect was arrested in Marsta a suburb north of Stockholm after members of the public contacted police to say he was acting strangely. Pictured is a police block near to where the arrest took placeA Syrian woman who gave her name only as Narin sobbed as she told how she saw a woman whose legs had been cut http://buybacklinksz.ampedpages.com/How-To-Use-Google-To-Find-Your-SEO-Backlinks-5808442 off in the carnage.She said: I was terrified I am still shaking. The truck went at high speed it crushed everything in its path. In the beginning we thought it was an explosion because of the loud sounds. One unnamed witness told of how he saw the truck come speeding towards him. He mowed down eight people there and I saw four bodies a little further away. A woman with a small child became completely paralysed and just stood still. I grabbed her and another woman and threw us all into a stairwell. As the chaos unfurled a plain clothes officer screamed at onlookers to leave the scene warning that there could be a bomb inside the lorry. John Backvid witnessed the aftermath of the attack and told how passers-by tried to help the injured before the emergency services arrived. He told BBC News: Some people were on the ground doing CPR. The first thing I felt was a bit of smoke in the air. I saw a gathering of people and the truck on fire it was deep in the store and the store fire alarm was going. It was chaotic. I could not see if anyone was driving it but it got out of control. I saw at least two being run over. I ran as fast as I could. Yosef Jawad said he saw an English-speaking woman collapsed on a zebra crossing and screaming: My legs my legs. Her feet hung loose and there was blood everywhere he said. I m from the Middle East you see very bad things on TV from Iraq but this was terrible. Radio presenter Martin Svennigsen said he tried desperately to save those who had been crushed by the vehicle. There was blood everywhere. I saw two shattered bodies and tried to save a third but could not. I leaned back and closed his eyes he told Swedish newspaper Expressen. more videos 1 2 3 Watch video Bus driver KICKS passenger after throwing him off the bus Watch video Couple caught getting frisky in university building Watch video Walking dead?: New Spice strain turns man into zombie Watch video Girl found living with monkeys can t walk or talk like humans Watch video Girl in India found living with monkeys dubbed Mowgli 2.0 Watch video An Indian girl living in the woods remains unknown to police Watch video Freeedom! Tiny Scottish woman picks a fight in McDonalds Watch video Horseplay! 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The use of a lorry to mow down a crowd is more reminiscent of terror attacks in Nice and Berlin last year Police hold a news conference to brief the press on the manhunt. 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Stallion loves zipping and unzipping girl s jumper Watch video Dangerous: Race marshal pushed through road on bonnet of car Jan Granroth was inside a shoe shop when he heard screams. He told Aftonbladet: We stood inside a shoe store and people started screaming. So I looked out of the store and I saw a huge truck slam into the wall opposite. Mr Granroth managed to escape after running through an emergency exit.Another witness called Dimitris described the panic and saw at least two people being run over. ATTACK MIRRORS TERROR INCIDENT IN STOCKHOLM IN 2010 The incident in the Swedish capital this afternoon mirrored a terror attack in central Stockholm in December 2010.A fortnight before Christmas a car blew up in a busy shopping area in Drottninggatan followed moments later by a second explosion nearby.The suicide bomber who blew himself up was identified as Iraqi man Taimour-Al-Abdaly 28 who graduated with a BSc in sports therapy at the University of Bedfordshire in 2004.He rigged an Audi car with explosives in the hope it would drive people to Drottninggatan a busy shopping street about 200 yards away where he was waiting to set off two more devices strapped to his chest and back.The car bomb never went off and after setting fire to the Audi he was unable to detonate the other two explosives as planned.He made his way down a side street off Drottninggatan and in an apparent attempt to fix the faulty trigger up his sleeve set off the bomb on the front of his body killing only himself. According to investigations by FBI the bombing would likely have killed between 30 and 40 people had it succeeded. In March 2011 Strathclyde Police in Scotland arrested 30-year-old Nasserdine Menni in the Whiteinch area of Glasgow in connection with the Stockholm bombing. He was jailed for seven years in 2012 after being found guilty of supplying money. He said: I went to the main street when a big truck came out of nowhere. I could not see if anyone was driving it but it got out of control. I saw at least two being run over - I ran as fast as I could. A woman called Anna witnessed the incident and described seeing hundreds of people running for their lives .She said: I turned and ran after seeing hundreds of people running they ran for their lives. Shocking video showed hundreds of terrified shoppers sprint for their lives after the truck rammed into pedestrians.In other footage shoppers pile into a clothes store as the terrorist truck speeds past.Just moments after the suspected terrorist incident armed police wearing gas masks arrived at the scene and shut off the busy road in the centre of the capital.Glen Foran an Australian tourist in his 40s said: I turned around and saw a big truck coming towards me. It swerved from side to side. It didn t look out of control it was trying to hit people it was terrible. It hit a pram with a kid in it demolished it. It took a long time for police to get here it felt like forever. Annevi Petersson who was in the fitting room of the department store at the time of the attack said: There was a lady lying with a severed foot. There was blood everywhere. There were bodies on the ground everywhere and a sense of panic people standing by their loved ones but also people running away. Maria Nathalie was on the top floor of the store when the fire alarm was triggered.Speaking on the phone she told NBC: People started running down the stairs when the fire alarm started. When we came down to the bottom of the building all we could see was a lot of smoke. As the centre of the city began to clear this afternoon the blood stains could be seen as bodies covered in blankets were left on the road.Paramedics desperately treated injured people near the lorry after they had been caught up in the attack.Terrified eyewitness Veronica Durango 42 miraculously escaped and was just one metre away from being struck by the vehicle.She told Expressen: I could have died. The Swedish royal family has issued a statement in which they say they have learned with dismay of the events. We follow the developments and our thoughts are with the victims and their families. Stockholmers appeared to be following police advice to stay indoors and avoid crowded areas with a number of normally-bustling city streets deserted. Security was also beefed up across European cities in the wake of the attack.In Norway one of the few European countries where police are not routinely armed officials announced that officers in major urban areas would now carry firearms. In a tweet Norwegian Police said officers in its largest cities and at Oslo s airport would be carrying weapons until further notice. In Finland police increased patrols in the capital Helsinki.Last night as world leaders sent messages of condolence Sweden s King Carl XVI Gustaf said his thoughts are going out to those that were affected and to their families .Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said that it looks like we have seen a despicable act of terrorism which was aimed at harming innocent people .Speaking just weeks after the Westminster terror attack Mr Khan said that we will never allow terrorists to succeed after a truck ploughed into people http://buybacklinksz.blogminds.com/what-is-angela-s-backlinking-2190904 in Stockholm.He said: My thoughts and deepest sympathies are with the victims and the families who have been affected by the horrific attack in Stockholm. The full details are still emerging but once again it looks like we have seen a despicable act of terrorism aimed at harming innocent people and attacking our shared values of democracy freedom justice and tolerance. Londoners know how it feels to suffer from senseless and cowardly terrorism. And I know we share a steely determination with the people of Stockholm that we will never allow terrorists to succeed. We will never be cowed by terrorism and London stands united with Stockholm and Londoners stand with the people of Stockholm. Tensions masked by idyllic lifestyleWith its bustling pavements and elegant shops Stockholm has come to be seen as one of Europe s most peaceful and developed cities.For decades the Swedish way of politics based on fair wealth redistribution a welfare state with generous benefits a large public sector and a liberal immigration policy has been put forward as a role model for other countries.Pundits and politicians have described Sweden as the safest place on Earth and it has barely suffered from terrorist attacks.Indeed the last incident of note came in 2010 when a failed suicide bomber blew himself up in central Stockholm.But yesterday s killings come two months after US President Donald Trump was ridiculed around the world for making reference to a nonexistent terror attack in the country. more videos 1 2 3 Watch video Bus driver KICKS passenger after throwing him off the bus Watch video Couple caught getting frisky in university building Watch video Moment models go surfing in nothing but painted wetsuits Watch video Cute Chinese kid owns Little Big Shots stage with his Latin dance Watch video Chilling CCTV shows Pardeep as she is followed under bridge Watch video Amazing parrot Einstein able to mimic human sounds and movements Watch video Girl found living with monkeys can t walk or talk like humans Watch video Girl in India found living with monkeys dubbed Mowgli 2.0 Watch video An Indian girl living in the woods remains unknown to police Watch video Freeedom! Tiny Scottish woman picks a fight in McDonalds Watch video Horseplay! Stallion loves zipping and unzipping girl s jumper Watch video Dangerous: Race marshal pushed through road on bonnet of car His outspoken remarks in which he also said Sweden was having problems like they never thought possible drew a wave of international criticism. But it prompted renewed debate over Sweden s refugee policy which has seen it described as the most welcoming country in the world . Some politicians say the country has struggled to deal with the huge numbers of migrants who have travelled there to enjoy the high quality of life.The surge of immigration at the peak of Europe s migration crisis in 2015 saw a record 163 000 asylum applications in just one year.The influx to a country with a population of 10million prompted officials to put in place additional checks at the country s borders.Since 2012 around 300 people have travelled from Sweden to join violent Islamist groups making the country one of the largest contributors to terrorist cells in Europe. They typically travel to Syria and Iraq but security services had felt they had stemmed the flow.Yesterday s attack will reawaken memories of Sweden s first brush with Islamist extremism when another devastating incident was only narrowly avoided on the same street.The botched 2010 plot was masterminded by a former British student who travelled to Drottninggatan as it was packed with Christmas shoppers.Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly 28 who was partly radicalised while studying in Luton had loaded his white Audi car with gas canisters which could have killed dozens.A remarkable stroke of luck however meant that the improvised weapons failed to detonate properly when the car went up in flames and only two people were injured.The sole fatality was the perpetrator himself. He had fled the vehicle carrying pipe bombs one of which exploded. How vehicles became terrorists favourite weapons Terrorists using cars and lorries to run down people like in Westminster Nice Berlin and now Stockholm is becoming the standard of an attack security experts warned.Low tech attacks using stolen and hired vehicles to randomly rammed into crowds were becoming increasing common by terrorists unable to get hold of guns and explosives.It is nigh on impossible for security services to monitor and stop potential terrorists planning such murders and the only way to prevent them is by using barriers to protect pedestrians.Managing Director of Corporate Security Services Will Geddes said attacks of this kind will likely increase.He said: We have seen a marked increase since the attacks in Nice last year and there is every good chance it will become regular as it is a very easy platform to deliver an attack. It is incredibly difficult to stop these things. We have seen something in Stockholm which is increasingly difficult to stop and we are going to see a drastic increase in the protection of pedestrianised areas. Whether they are going to be permanent or temporary time will tell. It is very difficult to stop nigh on impossible. There have been five attacks using cars and trucks in the past nine months. LondonOn 22 March Khalid Masood 52 drove a Hyundai 4x4 over Westminster Bridge mowing down members of the public before crashing into a fence beside Big Ben.He then got out of the car and attacked PC Keith Palmer with a knife. Masood was shot twice by police and died when he was taken to hospital.Five people died in the attack including PC Palmer.AntwerpThe day after the Westminster attack a man in Antwerp drove into a crowded shopping area in the Belgian city in an attempted attack but no one was injured.Prosecutors dropped terrorism charges against Mohamed R. as there was not enough evidence.He remains in custody on a weapons offence related to the incident.JerusalemOn January 8 a Palestinian lorry driver mowed down and then reversed over Israeli soldiers killing four and wounding 15 people in a shocking copycat of the Berlin and Nice terror massacres.Shocking video from the scene showed the driver reversing back over the soldiers trapping ten under his wheels during the sickening attack.BerlinA copycat ISIS-inspired massacre took place in Germany when a terrorist drove a truck through a Christmas market in Berlin.Twelve people were killed in the attack on December 19.Anis Amri stole a cargo truck and killed 12 people when he drove through a Christmas market next to the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church at Breitscheidplatz.Among the dozen people killed was the original driver of the truck Lukasz Urban who was found dead with a gunshot wound in the passenger street.Amri was a Tunisian who had failed to gain asylum status in the country.He was killed in Milan four days later after an international manhunt.Nice On Bastille Day in the summer of last year 86 people were killed when a truck was driven through crowds enjoying fireworks in Nice.On the evening of July 14 2016 a 19-tonne cargo truck was driven into crowds on the Promenage des Anglais.ISIS fanatic Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel was behind the wheel and after exchanging gunfire with police the Tunisian migrant was shot dead.Thousands had gathered on the seafront to watch the fireworks that night.86 of them died and 434 were injured. Armed police patrol outside the central station in Stockholm where people were evacuated from the station Bystanders were seen comforting each other outside of the Central station where gunmen were reported to have attacked commuters Many people in central Stockholm were clearly in shock after the terror incident. Police sealed off the centre of the city and asked members of the public to leave Shopping centres targeted by terrorists around the world Since 2013 there have been at least four terror attacks at shopping centres.Munich On July 23 German-Iranian man Ali Sonboly 18 attacked a mall in Munich Germany killing nine and wounding 27.He opened fire in a McDonald s and had no link to ISIS.The man shouted I am German as he wielded a Glock 17 semi-automatic pistol. Munich police said a motive was completely unclear but some said he was inspired by Norwegian Anders Brevik who killed 77 on Utøya island. Police officers escort people from inside the shopping center as they respond to the shooting at the Olympia Einkaufzentrum in MunichEssen threat On March 11 a shopping centre in Essen western Germany was closed after police had concrete indications of a terror attack.Police searched a flat 12 miles away from Limbecker Platz mall and questioned the owner of the apartment.A second man was also questioned. AntwerpOn March 23 the day after the Westminster terror attack a man drove a car into crowds at the Meir shopping area in Antwerp Belgium.No one was hurt and the man Mohamed R. 39 was taken into custody. Prosecutors have dropped terrorism charges as they said there was not enough evidence.But he is still being held on a weapons offence related to the incident. NairobiOn September 21 2013 a gunman killed 67 and injured 175 in an attack on a shopping mall in Nairobi. The extremist Islamic group al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the incident. Women carrying children run for safety as armed police hunt gunmen who went on a shooting spree in Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi Donald Trump supporters have been accused of opportunism after using the Stockholm lorry attack to claim he was right all along about Sweden. In February the US President made a seemingly confused reference to a nonexistent terror attack when he told a rally of supporters: We ve got to keep our country safe Look at what s happening in Germany look at what happened last night in Sweden. They took in large numbers of immigrants they re having problems like they never thought possible. The president was widely ridiculed because nothing of particular note and certainly no terrorist attack - had happened the previous night in Sweden. Former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt mockingly asked: What has he been smoking? Read more Stockholm attack: Witnesses tell of terror as truck ploughs into crowd Mr Trump later clarified that he had in fact been referring to a Fox News item which included a clip from a film by a documentary maker who had said he wanted to investigate why Sweden has become the rape capital of Europe after admitting over 350 000 Syrian refugees. Which only led to the rapid debunking of the claim that Sweden was the rape capital of Europe. President Trump cites terrorist incident in Sweden that never happened But within hours of the Stockholm attack claiming the lives of at least three people Trump supporters were using social media to declare that the US president had been right all along. Apparently ignoring Mr Trump s backtracking that he had been referring to the rape not terror threat in Sweden his supporters claimed that he had prophetically warned everyone . How are people shocked and saddened by this truck attack in #Stockholm? This is nothing new and Trump warned everyone. #Sweden Based Monitored (@BasedMonitored) April 7 2017 #Breaking #Sweden #FridayFeeling At Least 3 Dead In #Stockholm Truck Terror Attack & Shooting In Feb: Trump - You look at what s happening in http://buybacklinksz.blogolize.com/Edu-Backlinks-and-Gov-Backlinks-Importance-5669548 Sweden! Swedish PM - Trump is crazy April: Swedish PM - We had a terror attack Susie (@5U5ie777) April 7 2017 While some supported the notion others accused those posting of opportunism. @5U5ie777 Bit early in the day to be scoring political points isn t it? People are dead. Al (@angryjack1912) April 7 2017 While others pointed out a few flaws in the arguments of those seeking to claim that Mr Trump had been right all along. @5U5ie777 Susie time flows forward not backwards. Jesper Vinge (@spidelibob) April 7 2017 @LibLaugh What are you insinuating? That we didn t give trump enough credit for lying about an attack that never happen? Or for his Tarot reading? Anastasia T (@Ana_Zumba) April 7 2017 @LibLaugh He was wrong about that. He claimed something had happened last night however many weeks ago. You can t even call that foresight. Marika Cobbold (@Marikacobbold) April 7 2017 The debate has some similarities to that which occurred two days after Mr Trump made his rally comments when rioting broke out in the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby. This prompted right-wing commentators to argue that Mr Trump had been right to criticise a Swedish immigration policy that saw the country admit 163 000 asylum seekers in 2015 more refugees per capita than anywhere else in Europe. In pictures: Stockholm truck attack 15 show all In pictures: Stockholm truck attack 1/15 3 people dead when a truck crashed into Ahlens department store in central Stockholm Sweden Rex 2/15 People were killed when a truck crashed into department store Ahlens on Drottninggatan in central Stockholm Reuters 3/15 Special Police forces work at the scene where a truck crashed into the Ahlens department store at Drottninggatan in central Stockholm Getty Images 4/15 Woman is assisted at the scene after a truck crashed into an Ahlens department store in Stockholm Rex 5/15 A policewoman in a gas mask operates at the scene where a truck crashed into the Ahlens department store at Drottninggatan in central Stockholm Getty Images 6/15 People react at the scene where a truck crashed into the Ahlens department store at Drottninggatan in central Stockholm Rex 7/15 Reports say three people have died after a truck crashed into an Ahlens department store in Stockholm Rex 8/15 Armed police operates at the scene where a truck crashed into the Ahlens department store at Drottninggatan in central Stockholm Getty Images 9/15 People react at the scene where a truck crashed into the Ahlens department store at Drottninggatan in central Stockholm Getty Images 10/15 Emergency services close to the scene of an incident in Drottninggatan a street in the centre of Stockholm Sweden Lasse Gare/PA Wire 11/15 Passers react at the scene where a truck crashed into the Ahlens department store at Drottninggatan in central Stockholm Getty Images 12/15 People killed in incident when a truck was driven into a department store in central Stockholm Reuters 13/15 Police officers work at the scene where a truck crashed into the Ahlens department store at Drottninggatan in central Stockholm Getty Images 14/15 A general view shows a Ahlens department store after a truck reportedly crashed into it at Drottninggatan in central Stockholm Sweden EPA 15/15 A view of a street after a truck reportedly crashed into a department store in central Stockholm Sweden EPA At that stage though the right-wing commentators were at pains to stress that it was incorrect to say Mr Trump had been referring to terrorism. They instead emphasised that he had been talking about a break down in law and order in Sweden. They said that Rinkeby where more than 90% of residents were born abroad or have foreign-born parents was known locally as Little Mogadishu . One police officer was quoted as saying he watched the riot and suggested to a colleague: Perhaps Trump was right after all. He later insisted however that he supported Sweden s open immigration policy. Right-wing commentators also argued that Sweden s relatively low overall crime rates masked areas of high crime ethnic isolation and joblessness. They quoted figures showing that while only five per cent of 15-74-year-old Swedish-born workers are jobless foreign-born workers are three times more likely to be unemployed and 22.5 per cent of immigrants from outside the EU are out of work. Others however sought to put Sweden s problems into perspective among them those in Rinkeby itself. Jamal Raheem visiting Rinkeby on a two-week holiday from his home in east London told The Guardian: Rinkeby is not dangerous. It s a lot more dangerous in Stratford. Read more Stockholm attack: police arrest man claiming responsibility Stockholm attack: Witnesses tell of terror as truck ploughs into crowd Everything we know so far about the Stockholm attack Official figures suggested he might be right. With 2 405 violent crimes reported per 100 000 residents in 2016 the Rinkeby-Kista district was the most dangerous place in Stockholm outside the city centre. But even that figure comparatively high by Swedish standards was below the reported violent crime rate of 2 900 per 100 000 for the UK as a whole. The US records violent crime in significantly different ways to the Sweden and the UK but its murder rate has historically been far higher than in the other two countries. More about: Donald Trump Sweden Stockholm attack Reuse content Four people were killed and 15 injured when a stolen truck ploughed into a crowd of people outside a busy department store in central Stockholm today police said adding that one man had been arrested. Four people have died and 15 people have been injured Stockholm police spokesman Lars Bystrom told AFP. One man had also been detained in connection with the attack he said but would not comment on media reports that he confessed to the attack. Bystrom did not say if the detained man was the suspect whose grainy picture the police released earlier on Friday. The attack was the latest in a string of assaults in Europe in which vehicles have been used. In the worst such incident 86 people died in the French city of Nice when a man rammed a truck into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day last year. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility.(This article has not been edited by DNA s editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.) Amid the horror of the lorry attack in Stockholm a photograph of an armed police officer patiently helping an old lady across the road as she limps with a crutch has captured the imagination of social media. Taken in the aftermath of the attack was posted by reporter Frida Sundkvist it has already been shared hundreds of times. One person who retweeted the post said it would have been the news picture of the year if it had been taken from the front instead of the back. ️ Polis utrustad med MP5 eskorterar äldre dam över övergångsställe vid St Eriksplan. pic.twitter.com/ta295RalNO Frida Sundkvist (@Frisund) April 7 2017 Another replied: Wonderful image. Police and paramedics are making a great effort today. @Frisund Jättefin bild! ️ Viktigare än alla bilder på skadade som nyheterna sprider. Bale Markov (@baln0k) April 7 2017 @Frisund Årets nyhetsbild 2017 om tagen framifrån/ännu tydligare. @JuliusTonker Henrik Kullberger (@kullbergerfoto) April 7 2017 The incident is being treated as a terror attack after the lorry was hijacked and driven at speed into the crowd near a department stall in central Stockholm. Four people died in the attack and one person is understood to have been arrested. Witnesses told Swedish daily paper Aftonbladet they saw hundreds of people fleeing for their lives. I went to the main street when a big truck came out of nowhere one told the tabloid. I could not see if anyone was driving it but it got out of control. I saw at least two being run over. I ran as fast as I could from there. Armed police rushed to the scene and Swedish radio reported that shots had been fired. More about: Stockholm attack Reuse content (Want to get this briefing by email? Here s the sign-up.)Good evening. Here s the latest. Photo Credit Drew Angerer/Getty Images 1. The American military strike against Syria threatened Russian-American relations.President Vladimir Putin said the airstrike on a Syrian air base in retaliation for this week s lethal chemical attack was a significant blow to the relationship. He suspended an agreement to coordinate air operations to avoid accidental conflict.U.S. officials faulted Russia for not enforcing a 2013 agreement to eliminate Syria s chemical weapons. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is to meet Mr. Putin in Moscow on Tuesday.The attack was the greatest risk so far of Donald Trump s young presidency. And at the United Nations the American ambassador Nikki Haley above warned that the country was prepared to take further action. She provided no legal rationale for the attack. Continue reading the main story