Police say 39-year-old man from Uzbekistan detained on Friday is suspected of being driver as explosives reportedly found in cab of vehicle 
 
 The driver of a hijacked beer delivery truck that careered into crowds on Stockholm’s largest shopping street, killing four and injuring many more, is believed to be a 39-year-old man from Uzbekistan previously known to the security services. 
 
 Police in Sweden’s capital confirmed that a man had been arrested “on suspicion of a terrorist crime through murder” after the attack on Friday afternoon, which saw the haulage vehicle drive down a pedestrianised street in the capital before crashing into a department store. 
 
 
 
 Karin Rosander, a communications director at the Swedish prosecution authority, said that police suspected the arrested man had carried out the attack. He continued to be detained on Saturday. 
 
 The country’s national police chief, Dan Eliason, confirmed reports that the suspect was aged 39 and from the central Asian country. He added that he had previously been named in security information but was not recently under investigation, describing the suspect as “a more marginal character”. 
 
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 Anders Thornberg, head of the Swedish security service, said: “The suspect didn’t appear in our recent files but he earlier has been in our files.” 
 
 
 
 He said the security services were working with other nations’ security agencies on the matter, but declined to elaborate. 
 
 
 
 About 15 people were injured and four killed in the attack launched on Drottninggatan, one of the city’s main public thoroughfares. Five of the injured had been released from hospital by Saturday morning but ten remained under care, including a child. 
 
 Police sources reportedly told the Swedish broadcaster SVT that a bag of explosives was found in the truck and a bomb disposal unit was deployed overnight. They added that the devices had not been detonated and it is claimed the suspect had “burned himself”. Officials declined to confirm the reports but added that a device of some kind had been found in the truck. 
 
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 “The person in question has been arrested as the culprit ... in this case the driver,” police spokesman Lars Bystrom said. 
 
 A police patrol stopped the man on Friday after the attack because he had “behaved in a way that made him interesting”, and he resembled a suspect in photos issued by police shortly after the crash. 
 
 
 
 According to a report in the Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet, citing a police source, the arrested man is a 39-year-old from Uzbekistan. He had minor injuries and broken glass on his clothes, which matched those of the man in the photos. He is said to have taken a train north from the city after the attack and was arrested in a suburb near the airport, although he lives elsewhere in Stockholm. 
 
 Police spokesman Lars Bystrom declined to comment on the reports. 
 
 Other media reports said a second man had been detained on suspicion of being connected to the main suspect. The police declined to comment on whether it had arrested any other people. 
 
 If confirmed as a terrorist attack, it would be Sweden’s first such assault using a large vehicle. 
 
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 The prime minister, Stefan Löfven, said he had strengthened the country’s border controls. “Terrorists want us to be afraid, want us to change our behaviour, 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. 
 
 Restrictions on local transport imposed after the attack were lifted on Friday evening. 
 
 Fredrik Reinfeldt, the former prime minister of Sweden, said on Saturday that a liberal, open society must accept that its very freedoms make such attacks possible. “The feeling is that the price of the open society is that it’s very tough for us to shelter against these kinds of initiatives taken by a single person,” he told the Today programme on BBC Radio 4. 
 
 Swedes would not reject the principle of free movement across borders, nor accept extreme levels of surveillance to stop future attacks, although there may be a debate over whether greater use of CCTV is warranted, Reinfelt said. “We are preparing, we understand the risks; but we are not willing to close down the openness that is the flare of freedom that we love so much.” 
 
 The attack occurred just before 3pm (1300 GMT) when the stolen truck crashed into the corner of the bustling Åhléns department store having driven at speed down the pedestrianised Drottninggatan, situated above Stockholm’s central subway station. 
 
 Pictures taken at the scene showed a large blue beer truck with a mangled undercarriage smashed into the department store. 
 
 Witnesses described scenes of terror and panic. “A massive truck starts driving ... and mangles everything and just drives over exactly everything,” Rikard Gauffin told Agence France-Presse. “It was so terrible and there were bodies lying everywhere ... it was really terrifying.” 
 
 The truck was towed away in the early hours of Saturday. 
 
 A witness who gave his name as Marko said he and his girlfriend were in a coffee shop near the scene when he saw the truck ram into the store. “He hit a woman first, then he drove over a bunch of other people ... We took care of everyone lying on the ground,” he told Aftonbladet. 
 
 Hasan Sidi, another passerby, told Aftonbladet he saw two elderly women lying on the ground. He said people at the scene urged him to help one of the women who was “bleeding to death”. Sidi said: “One of them died ... I don’t know if the other one made it.” 
 
 Friday’s attack was the latest in a string of similar assaults with vehicles in Europe, including in London, Berlin and Nice. 
 
 The British prime minister, Theresa May, spoke with her Swedish counterpart on Saturday and offered to work together against extremist attacks. A Downing Street statement said May expressed her condolences on behalf of the British people in a telephone call to Löfven. 
 
 The statement said the leaders agreed on the importance of working together to tackle such threats. In a similar attack on Westminster last month, Khalid Masood drove a rented SUV into pedestrians before running into the grounds of parliament where he stabbed a police officer to death. Six people died, including the attacker. 
 
 The deadliest vehicle-based attack came last year in France on the 14 July Bastille Day national holiday, when a man rammed a truck into a crowd in the Mediterranean resort of Nice, killing 86 people. 
 
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 A street is cordoned off near the department store Ahlens following Friday's suspected terror attack in central Stockholm, Sweden, Saturday, April 8, 2017. Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven says everything indicates a truck that has crashed into a major department store in downtown Stockholm is "a... (Associated Press) 
 
 STOCKHOLM (AP) — The suspect in Stockholm's deadly beer truck attack is a 39-year-old native of Uzbekistan who had been on authorities' radar previously, Swedish authorities said Saturday. The prime minister urged citizens to "get through this" and strolled through the streets of the capital to chat with residents. 
 
 Swedes flew flags at half-staff Saturday to commemorate the four people killed and 15 wounded when the hijacked truck plowed into a crowd of shoppers Friday afternoon in Stockholm. Prime Minister Stefan Lofven declared Monday a national day of mourning, with a minute of silence at noon. 
 
 Sweden's police chief said authorities were confident they had detained the man who carried out the attack. 
 
 "There is nothing that tells us that we have the wrong person," Dan Eliason told a news conference Saturday, but added he did not know whether others were involved in the attack. "We cannot exclude this." 
 
 Eliason also said police found something in the truck that "could be a bomb or an incendiary object, we are still investigating it." 
 
 Prosecutor Hans Ihrman said the suspect has not yet spoken to authorities and could not confirm whether he was a legal resident of Sweden. Anders Thornberg, head of the Swedish Security Service, said security services were working with other nations' security agencies to investigate the attack, but declined to elaborate. 
 
 Police declined to comment on media reports about overnight police raids around Stockholm or if they were hunting any more suspects in the case. They said the suspect had been on their radar before but not recently, and did not explain why authorities apparently had not considered him a serious threat. 
 
 Eliason told reporters the suspect was "a more marginal character." 
 
 Sweden's health service said 10 people were still hospitalized for wounds from the attack and four of them were seriously injured. 
 
 Many in Sweden were shocked by the attack, questioning whether Swedish society — considered democratic and egalitarian — had failed in some way. 
 
 Visiting the attack site at an upscale department store, Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria laid roses on the ground Saturday and wiped away a tear. 
 
 "We must show a huge force, we must go against this," she told reporters. 
 
 The stolen beer truck traveled for more than 500 yards (meters) along Drottninggatan, a main pedestrian street, before smashing into a crowd outside the popular Ahlens department store. 
 
 The crash was near the site of a December 2010 attack in which Taimour Abdulwahab, a Swedish citizen who lived in Britain, detonated a suicide bomb, killing himself and injuring two others. He had rigged a car with explosives but the car bomb never went off. Abdulwahab died when one of his devices exploded among panicked Christmas shoppers. 
 
 Steve Eklund, 35, who works in an office nearby, said "maniacs can't be stopped." 
 
 "It's very simple. Things like this will always happen in an open society," Eklund said. "Sweden is not a totalitarian society." 
 
 In February, U.S. President Donald Trump suggested that Sweden could be the next European country to suffer the kind of extremist attacks that have devastated France, Belgium and Germany. Two days after his remarks, a riot broke out in predominantly immigrant suburb of Stockholm where police opened fire on rioters, a surprise to many Swedes who aren't used to officers using guns. 
 
 "We must get through this. Life must go on," Lofven said Saturday after again laying flowers near the crash site. "We in Sweden want an open society." 
 
 Lofven also made a point of walking around Stockholm, including along the Drottninggatan, chatting with people having coffee outside a cafe. 
 
 The prime minister says said the aim of terrorism is to undermine democracy. 
 
 "But such a goal will never be achieved in Sweden," he said. 
 
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 AP reporters Pietro DeCristofaro in Stockholm, and Jan M. Olsen in Copenhagen, Denmark, contributed. ||||| A body, centre at rught, lies on the ground on at the scene after a truck crashed into a department store injuring several people in central Stockholm, Sweden, Friday April 7, 2017. (Andreas Schyman,... (Associated Press) 
 
 A body, centre at rught, lies on the ground on at the scene after a truck crashed into a department store injuring several people in central Stockholm, Sweden, Friday April 7, 2017. (Andreas Schyman, TT News Agency via AP) (Associated Press) 
 
 STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Latest on the truck crashing into a department store in central Stockholm. (all times local): 
 
 10:20 p.m. 
 
 Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has laid a bouquet of red roses and lit a candle near the department store in Stockholm where a hijacked beer trucked crashed on a busy shopping street, killing four people and wounding 15 others. 
 
 Lofven briefly spoke to a police officer at the site, who said the prime minister was "saddened" by what he is calling a terror attack. 
 
 Swedish broadcaster SVT says forensic police have entered the stolen truck to search for evidence. The vehicle was still tucked inside the entrance to the Ahlens department store. 
 
 Stockholm police spokesman Lars Bystrom tells The Associated Press "we will be working as long as necessary" to understand the attack. 
 
 Earlier, Lofven vowed that terrorism will never undermine Sweden's democracy. 
 
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 9:55 p.m. 
 
 Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven says "the country is in a state of shock" over the stolen beer truck attack that killed four people and wounded 15 others in downtown Stockholm. 
 
 Lofven said "the aim of terrorism is to undermine democracy. But such a goal will never be achieved in Sweden." 
 
 Police have arrested one suspect in the truck attack but would not say if they are hunting for any others. They discouraged people from going into central Stockholm on Friday night, and the national theater, which is near the crash site, canceled three plays. 
 
 Lofven said in a national televised address that his Social Democratic Party was still planning to hold its annual convention this weekend in Goteborg, Sweden's second-largest city. 
 
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 9:40 p.m. 
 
 Swedish police say they have arrested one man "whom we are particularly interested in" in the deadly stolen beer truck attack in Stockholm. 
 
 Jan Evensson from the Stockholm police told a news conference late Friday the man was arrested in Marsta, a northern Stockholm suburb close to the city's international airport, Arlanda. He says the man was "in the vicinity" of the truck crash that killed four people and wounded 15 others on a pedestrian street in the Swedish capital. 
 
 He says the suspect was spotted by a police patrol and was in a police photo released earlier Friday wearing a greenish hood at the top of an escalator. 
 
 Stefan Hector of the Sweden's national police says "we have a working hypothesis this is an act of terror." 
 
 Evensson urged people not to go into central Stockholm for the time being. 
 
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 9 p.m. 
 
 Stockholm police have raised the toll in the beer truck attack to 4 dead, 15 wounded. 
 
 The news comes as Swedish police launched a nationwide manhunt for the person or persons who drove a stolen beer truck down a pedestrian street in the Swedish capital and crashed it into a department store Friday afternoon. 
 
 Stockholm police say one person "that can have some kind of connection" to the attack has been arrested. 
 
 It's not clear if that person is the man in a police photo released earlier Friday, wearing a greenish hood at the top of an escalator. 
 
 Police are holding a news conference in 30 minutes on the case. 
 
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 8:45 p.m. 
 
 The Stockholm County Council says three people have been killed and 15 wounded in the beer truck attack, nine of them seriously. 
 
 Swedish police have launched a nationwide manhunt for the person or persons who drove a stolen beer truck down a pedestrian street in Stockholm and crashed it into a department store Friday afternoon. 
 
 Stockholm police say one person "that can have some kind of connection" to the attack has been arrested. 
 
 The Swedish daily Aftonbladet reported that a man with minor injuries had been arrested and has confessed to being behind the beer truck crash. 
 
 Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has described the crash as a terror attack. 
 
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 8:40 p.m. 
 
 Sweden's national theater, Dramaten, located a stone's throw from where a hijacked beer truck crashed into an upscale department store, has canceled three plays Friday evening. 
 
 The theater says on its web page that people who had bought tickets could either have refunds or change their dates to other shows or days. 
 
 Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has described the crash as a terror attack and says it killed at least two people. 
 
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 8:20 p.m. 
 
 Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen says the truck crash that killed at least two people in neighboring Stockholm "is a cowardly attempt to subdue us and the peaceful way we live in Scandinavia." 
 
 Loekke Rasmussen says "it hurts deep inside my heart that our Swedish brothers have been exposed to a so abominable attack." 
 
 Latvia's Foreign Ministry "condemns in the strongest terms the terror attack." 
 
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 8 p.m. 
 
 Swedish police have launched a nationwide manhunt for the person or persons who drove a stolen beer truck down a pedestrian street in Stockholm and crashed it into a department store. 
 
 Police released photos of a man wearing a greenish hood at the top of an escalator, believed to be somehow "connected to the event." 
 
 Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven described the crash as a terror attack and said two people were killed. 
 
 Sweden's police chief Dan Eliasson said they have had no contact with "the person or persons" who drove the stolen truck but police started "a preliminary investigation of suspected terrorist crimes." 
 
 The head of Sweden's security agency, Anders Thornberg, said they are "conducting intensive intelligence work to identify the person or persons behind the attack." 
 
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 7:30 p.m. 
 
 Swedish police say they are beginning a "preliminary investigation into suspected terrorist crimes" after a deadly truck crash in Stockholm. 
 
 The head of Sweden's security agency, Anders Thornberg, said agents are "conducting intensive intelligence work to identify the person or persons behind the attack." 
 
 Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven described Friday's deadly truck attack in central Stockholm as a "terrorist attack." Police, however, say they have no details about the attacker or attackers and no one in custody. 
 
 No one has claimed responsibility for crashing a stolen beer truck into a major department store in the city. Lofven says two people have died in the attack. Swedish media are reporting more deaths but police won't confirm those reports. 
 
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 6:50 p.m. 
 
 The mayor of London, where five people were killed in a vehicle and knife attack last month, says the British capital "stands united with Stockholm" after Friday's deadly truck crash. 
 
 Sadiq Khan says it appears Sweden has "seen a despicable act of terrorism aimed at harming innocent people and attacking our shared values of democracy, freedom, justice and tolerance." 
 
 He says Londoners know what it is to suffer from terrorism, and "we share a steely determination with the people of Stockholm that we will never allow terrorists to succeed." 
 
 Swedish police say several people were killed and injured after a stolen beer truck careened down a pedestrian street and into a department store. 
 
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 6:10 p.m. 
 
 The foreign ministers of Germany and France are reacting with shock to the deadly truck attack in Stockholm. 
 
 Sigmar Gabriel and Jean-Marc Ayrault noted Sweden's efforts for human rights, peace and justice around the world. 
 
 In a joint statement Friday, they said that "this makes the shock about the pictures coming from the heart of Stockholm that much greater." 
 
 Both Germany and France experienced deadly truck attacks last year that were claimed by the Islamic State group. 
 
 Separately, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier expressed solidarity with the victims in Stockholm "and all people in Sweden." 
 
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 6:05 p.m. 
 
 Paris' mayor says the Eiffel Tower will go black from midnight in homage to Stockholm after a truck ran into a crowd of people with deadly consequences. 
 
 Anne Hidalgo, in a communique Friday, expressed her "strong emotion" over "this new terrorist attack of immense cowardice." 
 
 Hidalgo also expressed solidarity with the victims and their loved ones, as well as with Stockholm Mayor Karin Wanngard, "in this particularly difficult ordeal." 
 
 Hidalgo is no stranger to bloodshed in her city, following attacks in 2015 on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in January and on various sites in November of the same year including at the Bataclan concert hall. 
 
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 6 p.m. 
 
 Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent a telegram of condolence to Sweden's monarch in the wake of the fatal truck crash in Stockholm that officials say was likely a terror attack. 
 
 "In our country, people know, and not by hearsay, about the atrocities of international terrorism. At this difficult time, Russians mourn together with the people of Sweden," Putin said in the message to King Carl XVI Gustaf that was published on the Kremlin website Friday. 
 
 A suicide bomb on a St. Petersburg subway train on Monday killed 13 passengers. 
 
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 5:45 p.m. 
 
 Swedish police say they cannot say how many people were killed or injured when a truck ran into a crowd in downtown Stockholm, and they have not found the driver. 
 
 "We have no contact with the person or persons who drove the truck," Sweden's top police chief, Dan Eliasson, told a news conference. 
 
 "Right now we have no one arrested," said Jan Evensson of the Stockholm police who urged people not to drive into central Stockholm. 
 
 Sweden's security agency boss Anders Thornberg said the SAPO agency was working with the ordinary police in the case, adding "we worked on a similar sceanario last week." 
 
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 5:30 p.m. 
 
 Norwegian police, who are normally unarmed, have decided to allow officers in some major cities to carry weapons following an apparent attack in the center of the Swedish capital, Stockholm, national news agency NTB said. 
 
 Oslo Police spokeswoman Marita Aune confirmed to The Associated Press that officers in Oslo will begin to carry weapons with immediate effect. 
 
 Several people are believed to have been killed and several others injured after the lorry ran into a crowd of people on a pedestrian street in central Stockholm. 
 
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 5:30 p.m. 
 
 Swedish police say there are several dead and several injured after a truck ran into a crowd of people in downtown Stockholm. 
 
 In a statement Friday, they said that they cannot exclude this is an act of terror based on other events in Europe. 
 
 Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven, who was returning to Stockholm from central Sweden, said that everything indicates it was "a terror attack." 
 
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 5 p.m. 
 
 Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf said in a brief statement that the Swedish royal family had noted the apparent attack in central Stockholm "with dismay" and sent condolences to the families of the victims and injured. 
 
 "We follow developments but as of now our thoughts go to the victims and their families," he said. 
 
 In neighboring Finland, President Sauli Niinisto said he is shocked by the "maniac act of terror" in Stockholm. 
 
 "Every terror attack is to be equally condemned. But it touches us deeply when such an attack takes place in our Nordic neighborhood," Niinisto said in a statement. 
 
 Finnish Foreign Minister Timo Soini described on Twitter the events in Stockholm as "a shocking incident" and the Helsinki police said separately that it will tighten security measures in the center of the Finnish capital. 
 
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 4:55 p.m. 
 
 Top European Union officials have expressed their condolences to the families of victims of the truck crash at a Stockholm department store and praised the courage of first responders. 
 
 EU Council President Donald Tusk said in a tweet Friday that "my heart is in Stockholm this afternoon. My thoughts are with the victims and their families and friends of today's terrible attack." 
 
 European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said that "one of Europe's most vibrant and colorful cities appears to have been struck by those wishing it - and our very way of life - harm." 
 
 Juncker said "an attack on any of our (EU) member states is an attack on us all" and that Sweden can count on EU help. 
 
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 4:50 p.m. 
 
 Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman says the German government's "thoughts are with the people in Stockholm, the injured, the relatives, first responders and police" after a truck crashed into a department store, killing several people. 
 
 Steffen Seibert said Friday on Twitter following the apparent attack in Sweden: "We stand together against terror." 
 
 Germany experienced a truck attack on a busy Berlin Christmas market in December, in which 12 people were killed. 
 
 The attacker, a 24-year-old Tunisian, was shot dead in Italy days later. 
 
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 4:20 p.m. 
 
 Photos at the scene in downtown Stockholm show that the truck which crashed into a major department store, killing several people, is a large beer truck. 
 
 The Aftonbladet daily says Swedish beermaker Spendrups said its truck had been carjacked earlier Friday. Photos showed the beer truck sticking out of the Ahlens department store. 
 
 Swedish broadcaster SVT said shots were fired at the scene, though it wasn't clear who fired them. 
 
 Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven says the truck crash "is an act of terror" that has killed at least two people. 
 
 Swedish media report that up to five people have been killed, and Sweden's intelligence agency says many people have been injured in the crash. 
 
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 4:10 p.m. 
 
 Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven says everything indicates that a truck which has crashed into a major department store in downtown Stockholm is "a terror attack." 
 
 Lofven says at least two people have been killed in the attack Friday afternoon on the Ahlens store. 
 
 Broadcaster SVT says at least five people have been killed in the attack but police could not immediately confirm that. Swedish radio says at least three people have died. 
 
 The Aftonbladet daily says Swedish beermaker Spendrups said its truck had been carjacked earlier Friday. 
 
 The most recent attack in Stockholm was on Dec. 11, 2010, when an Iraqi-born Swede, Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, detonated two devices, including one that killed him, in central Stockholm. 
 
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 4 p.m. 
 
 Swedish radio says a truck has crashed into an upscale department store in central Stockholm, killing at least three people. 
 
 Swedish police are urging people to avoid central Stockholm around the downtown Sergels Torg square, and Swedish news agency TT says subway traffic has been shut down in the area. 
 
 Broadcaster SVT says at least five have been killed but police could not immediately confirm. 
 
 Sweden's Intelligence Agency says on its web page that there is "a large number of injured" in the truck crash. 
 
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 3:40 p.m. 
 
 Pictures published by Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet show that a truck has ploughed into the upscale Ahlens department store in the Swedish capital of Stockholm. Swedish radio says Friday that three people have been killed in the crash and Swedish broadcaster SVT says shots have been fired. 
 
 People in the area are fleeing the scene. 
 
 Witness Jan Granroth told Aftonbladet, another daily that "we stood inside a shoe store and heard something ... and then people started to scream." He says "I looked out of the store and saw a big truck." 
 
 The store is part of a Sweden-wide chain. The building includes several stores at the street level. 
 
 3:10 p.m. 
 
 Swedish media say a truck has crashed into a department store in central Stockholm, killing three people. 
 
 Swedish radio says Friday that three people have been killed in the crash and Swedish broadcaster SVT says shots have been fired. People in the area are fleeing the scene. 
 
 The Swedish news agency TT says several people have been rushed away in ambulances, and live television footage showed smoke coming out of the department store that the truck smashed into. 
 
 Swedish police said say they have received calls about a person who has injured others driving a vehicle on the central Stockholm street of Drottninggatan. Police spokeswoman Towe Hagg says people have been injured but she would not confirm the deaths. ||||| STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A 39-year-old Uzbek man being held in custody is the suspected driver of a hijacked beer delivery truck that plowed into crowds in central Stockholm, killing four people and wounding 15 in an apparent terror attack, police said on Saturday. 
 
 The man, previously known to Swedish intelligence services as a marginal figure with no clear links to extremist groups, is suspected of mowing down pedestrians on a busy shopping street and smashing through a store front on Friday. 
 
 “Nothing indicates that we have the wrong person, on the contrary, suspicions have strengthened as the investigation has progressed,” Dan Eliasson, head of Sweden’s national police, told a news conference on Saturday. 
 
 The man, detained on Friday night on terrorism charges after the attack in the heart of the capital, appeared to have acted alone but “we still cannot rule out that more people are involved,” he said. 
 
 Police raided several addresses in the Stockholm area on Saturday, according to TT news agency and tabloid Aftonbladet, but told Reuters no further arrests in connection with the attack had been made. 
 
 A Reuters witness saw police wearing protective masks carrying out a search at an apartment in a southern Stockholm suburb. 
 
 LAWYER MET WITH SUSPECT 
 
 Court-appointed lawyer Johan Eriksson told Reuters he had met with the suspect on Saturday but declined to give further details about his client. 
 
 Police did not name the detainee, but said he was from the central Asian republic of Uzbekistan and that he had seemed peripheral in intelligence reports. 
 
 “We received intelligence last year, but we did not see any links to extremist circles,” Sapo security police chief Anders Thornberg said. 
 
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 Eliasson said there were “clear similarities” to an attack last month in London in which six people died, including the assailant who drove a hired car into pedestrians on a bridge. 
 
 Vehicles have also been used as weapons in Nice and Berlin in the past year in attacks claimed by Islamic State. 
 
 There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack in Sweden, which until now had been largely immune from major attacks and where many take pride in an open, democratic society. 
 
 “I think it was just a matter of time, but still one doesn’t think it will happen,” Cecilia Hansson, a 25 year-old nurse, said. “It’s still unreal when it happens this close.” 
 
 Police said they had found a suspicious device in the vehicle, which ended up rammed into the Ahlens department store, but said they did not yet know if it was a homemade bomb, as reported by public broadcaster SVT. 
 
 Local authorities in Stockholm, where flags flew at half mast, said 10 people including a child were still being treated in hospital, with two adults in intensive care. 
 
 Sweden will hold a minute’s silence at midday (1000 GMT) on Monday to mourn the dead. Police said they were maintaining a heightened presence, fearing copycat attacks. 
 
 FLOWERS, DEFIANCE 
 
 A gaping hole in the wall of the store showed the force of the impact from the truck, which was removed overnight for examination by forensics experts, and people gathered to pay their respects and leave flowers. 
 
 Ahlens said it would open part of the store on Sunday. 
 
 STOCKHOLM 2017-04-08 Police in central Stockholm near the crime scene on April 08, 2017, the day after a hijacked beer truck plowed into pedestrians on Drottninggatan and crashed into Ahlens department store on Friday, killing four people, injuring 15 others. TT News Agency/Anders Wiklund/via REUTERS 
 
 Prime Minister Stefan Lofven visited the site and struck a defiant tone: “All of us feel anger over what has happened, I also feel the same anger, but we also need to use that anger for something constructive and go forward.” 
 
 “We want - and I am convinced the Swedish people also want - to live a normal life. We are an open, democratic society and that is what we will remain.” 
 
 Sweden’s King Carl Gustaf, who broke off a trip to Brazil and quickly returned home after the attack, addressed the nation in a televised speech from his home at Stockholm’s palace. 
 
 “Those of us who want to help are many more than those who wish to harm us,” said the monarch, wearing a dark suit and black tie. “Sweden is, has long been and will continue to be a safe and peaceful country.” 
 
 The attack was the latest to hit the Nordic region after shootings in the Danish capital Copenhagen killed three people in 2015 and the mass attack in 2011 by far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people in Norway. 
 
 A failed suicide bombing in December 2010 killed an attacker only a few hundred yards from the site of Friday’s incident. 
 
 IMMIGRATION 
 
 For decades, Sweden has been among the most generous nations to immigrants. But some Swedes are having second thoughts after more than 160,000 people, many from Syria, applied for asylum in 2015 in a nation of just 10 million. 
 
 Sweden has since tightened its borders and asylum numbers have slowed to a trickle. Support for the opposition far-right Sweden Democrat party, which links worries about education, welfare costs and crime with immigration, has continued to rise. 
 
 “We have warned about such incidents ... but we do not want to score any political points today,” Julia Kronlid, vice chairman of the party, told Reuters. 
 
 Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack in Nice, France, in July 2016, when a truck killed 86 people, and a truck attack on a Christmas market in Berlin in December that killed 12. 
 
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 In last month’s attack in London, a man drove into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge near Britain’s parliament and then stabbed a policeman to death before being killed himself. 
 
 In February U.S. President Donald Trump falsely suggested there had been an immigration-related security incident in Sweden, to the bafflement of Swedes. 
 
 Neutral Sweden has not fought a war in more than 200 years, but its military has taken part in U.N. peacekeeping missions in several conflict zones, including Iraq, Mali and Afghanistan.
– The man accused of killing four people with a hijacked beer truck in Stockholm Friday is a 39-year-old from Uzbekistan who was a "marginal character" already known to authorities, officials in Sweden say. Police say they found a "suspect device" in the vehicle and they haven't ruled out the involvement of other people, the BBC reports. Ten people, including a child, are still in hospital after the attack on one of the city's main thoroughfares. Authorities believe the device may have burned the suspect instead of exploding when he drove through crowds on a pedestrianized street and crashed into a department store, the Guardian reports. Police say the suspect fled after the attack and was arrested in a northern suburb. The AP reports that Sweden's Prime Minister Stefan Lofven made a point of walking through the city's streets and stopping to chat to people before laying flowers at the scene Saturday. " We must get through this. Life must go on," Lofven said. "We in Sweden want an open society." "Terrorists want us to be afraid, want us to change our behaviour, want us to not live our lives normally, but that is what we're going to do," Lofven said. "So terrorists can never defeat Sweden, never." There has been no claim of responsibility for the attack, though ISIS claimed similar attacks in cities including London and Nice, reports Reuters.