At least four people were killed and a dozen more were wounded Friday after an unidentified terrorist drove a hijacked beer truck into into the Ahlens City shopping center just before 3 pm local time in Stockholm, Sweden.
One arrest was made although it was not clear who the “person of interest” was. Two others were being sought but police did not reveal details about their identities or connection to the case.
Police chief Dan Eliasson told reporters Friday afternoon the terrorist — or terrorists — had escaped after carrying out the attack.
“Sweden has been attacked. Everything points to the fact that this is a terrorist attack,” Prime Minister Stefan Lofven told reporters during a visit in western Sweden. He returned to the capital shortly after the attack.
‘We will always do everything we can to protect Sweden, but we can’t guarantee that it won’t happen again,” Lofven said to journalists at a briefing later Friday. “If this is a terrorist attack, terrorists … want us to not live our lives normally,” he said. “But that is what we are going to do. So terrorists can never defeat Sweden. Never.”
“We follow developments but as of now our thoughts go to the victims and their families,” said Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustav in a brief statement. The monarch cut short a state visit to Brazil to return to his country due to the attack.
This report was filed from New York prior to the start of the holy Sabbath.