Four killed, a dozen injured in Stockholm attack
By
Kumaran Ira
8 April 2017
In a horrific attack around 3 p.m. local time Friday, a man drove a lorry into a crowd, killing at least four people and injuring many more on Drottninggatan (Queen Street), outside the Åhlens department store in Stockholm, Sweden.
The lorry crashed into the department store, reportedly coming from a direction in which lorries are not allowed, and caught fire. The driver then engaged in a gunfight with police before managing to flee the scene of the crime.
A witness, Annevi Petersson, who was in the fitting room of the department store at the time of the attack, told the BBC: “I heard the noise, I heard the screams, I saw the people. As I walked out, just outside the store there was a dead dog, the owner screaming. There was a lady lying with a severed foot. There was blood everywhere. There were bodies on the ground everywhere.”
The lorry used during the attack was stolen from Swedish brewery Spendrups, which said the truck had been stolen on its way to a restaurant delivery earlier in the day. “Someone jumped into the driver’s cabin and drove off with the vehicle while the driver was unloading,” a brewery spokesperson told the TT news agency.
Swedish officials declared that the incident was a “terrorist attack.” Calling for tightening security. Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said that Sweden had “been attacked” in an apparent terrorist incident, and was strengthening its borders. He declared that Sweden would do “whatever it takes” for people to feel safe. “Terrorists want us to be afraid … to not live our lives normally, but that is what we are going to do,” he said.
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