text: 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... (Associated Press) 
   
   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. ||||| Image copyright AFP Image caption The lorry was driven into the front of a department store 
   
   Swedish police have confirmed they discovered a suspect device inside the lorry which was driven into a Stockholm department store on Friday. 
   
   The device was found in the driver's seat, National Police Commissioner Dan Eliasson said, but it was not known whether it was a bomb. 
   
   Mr Eliasson also said the suspect in custody was from Uzbekistan, 39, and known to security services. 
   
   The hijacked lorry was driven into Ahlens department store in the capital. 
   
   Four people were killed - 10 remain in hospital, including a child. Two are in intensive care. 
   
   Eyewitnesses: Lorry was 'trying to hit people' 
   
   Late on Saturday, police in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, found a "bomb-like device" in the Groenland district of the city and detained a man. 
   
   The area was cordoned off and a controlled explosion carried out. Police say further investigations are continuing. 
   
   What do we know about the Stockholm suspect? 
   
   The suspect, who was not named, was known to the security services. 
   
   However, he had only been seen as a "marginal character", Mr Eliasson said. 
   
   The head of Swedish security police, Anders Thornberg, said the suspect was "a person who has previously figured in our intelligence flow". 
   
   Image copyright Swedish police Image caption Police wanted to speak to this man - a suspect matching his description was later arrested 
   
   It is not clear if the suspect was resident in Sweden. 
   
   Mr Eliasson said police had reason to believe the suspect was the man behind the attack. 
   
   But he added: "We still cannot rule out that more people are involved." 
   
   On Saturday, there were reports of more police raids in Sweden. However, police told Reuters they had not made any further arrests. 
   
   Was there a bomb in the lorry? 
   
   Police say it is too early to tell what the "technical device" in the lorry was - only that "it should not be there". 
   
   "I cannot say at this stage that this is a bomb or some sort of flammable material," Mr Eliasson said. 
   
   "We are doing a technical investigation." 
   
   Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption What we know about the Stockholm lorry attack 
   
   What is the Swedish government doing? 
   
   Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has called it a terrorist attack, with borders tightened at his request. 
   
   "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." 
   
   "Terrorists can never defeat Sweden, never," Mr Lofven said. 
   
   "We're also determined to continue to be an open society; a democratic society." 
   
   Image copyright AFP Image caption A memorial has been set up near the site 
   
   The mayor of Stockholm, Karin Wanngard, reiterated that Stockholm was open. 
   
   "This is not an attack that's about the colour of your skin," she said. 
   
   "We can show that with good integration, with an openness and a friendly behaviour, we are stronger together and it doesn't matter where you come from." 
   
   Sweden's king, Carl XVI Gustaf, said: "We are all shaken by what has happened." 
   
   He added that those "who want to help, are more than those who want to hurt us". 
   
   "Unfortunately we've experienced many acts of violence before and we have coped and we will now too." 
   
   There will be a minute's silence in Sweden at midday on Monday to commemorate the dead. 
   
   Has Sweden experienced similar attacks before? 
   
   Sweden has generally low crime rates, and has been ranked as one of the safest countries in the world. 
   
   Image copyright AFP Image caption Forensic police are investigating the site of the lorry attack 
   
   In 2010, two bombs detonated in central Stockholm, killing the attacker - an Iraq-born Swedish man - and injuring two others. 
   
   In October 2015, a masked man who was believed to have far-right sympathies killed a teacher and pupil in a sword attack. 
   
   In February, US President Donald Trump cited a non-existent terror attack in Sweden, and blamed it on the country's asylum policy - baffling many Swedes. 
   
   Sweden has taken in nearly 200,000 refugees and migrants in recent years - more per capita than any other European country. 
   
   However, there was a drop in numbers last year after the country introduced new border checks. 
   
   Separately, Sweden is believed to have the highest number of Islamic State group fighters per capita in Europe. 
   
   About 140 of the 300 who went to Syria and Iraq have since returned, leaving the authorities to grapple with how best to reintegrate them into society. 
   
   Timeline: Vehicle ramming attacks in Europe and the US ||||| 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. ||||| 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. 
   
   Facebook Twitter Pinterest Swedish police released these images of a man suspected of being involved in the attack. 
   
   “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. 
   
   Facebook Twitter Pinterest People stand behind the police cordon around the scene of the attack. Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images 
   
   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. 
   
   Agence France-Presse and Reuters also contributed to this report
target: – 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.