15 April, 2017
Following the attack, the Swedish prime minister, Stefan Löfven, said "everything indicates that this is a terrorist attack".
The man behind the Friday truck attack that left four people dead in Stockholm, Sweden has been identified as an Uzbek national who was denied permanent residency, and is believed to have sympathy for ISIS.
His application for residency was rejected in June past year and he was being sought by immigration officials, police said.
"We know that the suspect had expressed sympathy for extremist organisations, among them IS", Jonas Hysing, chief of national police operations, told a news conference, using an acronym for the ultra-hardline militant group.
Earlier today, a Briton was confirmed among the people killed in the Stockholm terrorist attack, Swedish police have said.
At least four of the 10 are considered to be "seriously" injured, said spokesman Patrik Soderberg.
A 39-year-old Uzbek man was arrested as the suspected driver.
Asked which countries the foreign citizens were from, another representative from the police said: "Belgium and England".
"And if we do that, then terrorism will have lost".
He reportedly told investigators he was "pleased with what he had done" and had "accomplished what he set out to do", the paper said.
The Swedish police say three of the four truck attack victims have been identified but none have been named.
Sweden's public broadcaster SVT had reported that a bag of undetonated explosives was found inside the truck, which was stolen minutes before the attack as it made a delivery at a restaurant.
Speaking from her hospital bed, she said she "thought a war was going on" because "people around me were screaming".
A failed asylum seeker in Berlin drove a truck into a Christmas market in December 2016, killing 12 people.
Ciuraru said she "tried to get up and run but got a huge rock over my leg".
Thousands of people gathered on Sunday for a "Lovefest" vigil against terrorism and to honour the victims at the Sergels Torg plaza near the scene of the attack, where a sea of flowers, candles and stuffed toys had been placed by mourning Swedes.
Rakhmat Akilov, 39, was arrested by Swedish police in the wake of the fatal attack that included one Brit killed.
The vehicle mowed down shoppers before slamming into the facade of the busy Ahlens department store. It said its motivation "was born out of the idea of standing up for transparency and not allowing evil forces take control of our lives".
The store said it would reopen Monday "without any damaged goods".
Instead, he allegedly went underground, eluding authorities' attempts to track down and deport him until a hijacked beer truck raced down a pedestrian street and rammed into an upscale department store on Friday. It was quickly put out.
Police and Sweden's intelligence have questioned some 500 people as part of the investigation, a senior police officer said.
