
In the center of Stockholm, the truck drove into a crowd of people on a pedestrian street Drotningatan, reports Reuters. According to various sources, from three to five people were killed, there are wounded.
Sweden Prime Minister Stefan Levven called the incident with a terrorist truck entering the crowd of people. "Sweden was attacked. Everything indicates that it was a terrorist attack," he said at a press conference.
After the terrorist attack, the parliament building was cordoned off, the work of the Stockholm metro was stopped.
The truck on which the hit was made, belonged to the Spendrups brewery and was sting. “This is one of our trucks for distribution. During delivery to the Caliente restaurant, someone jumped into the driver's cab and hijacked the car while the driver unloaded the goods,” the company representative said .
Initially reported the detention of the suspect. However, later the police stated that there were no detentions.
The police later published a photograph of the wanted one in connection with the terrorist attack. The photo shows a man in a green jacket and a gray sweater with a hood. Pictures were taken from surveillance cameras at the scene. The police did not call the suspect shown in the photo, but they emphasized that citizens are strongly not recommended to make contact with him, they only need to transmit information about his whereabouts.
Passers -by in Stockholm are saved from the attack. Eyewitness shooting:
Crowds Running from Scene of Incident in #stockholm After Car Ramming Pic.twitter.com/3uoegbh3v3vr
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On March 22, a terrorist attack occurred in London. 52-year-old terrorist Khalid Masud, who moved by car, crashed into a crowd of people on the Westminster bridge located near the parliament building. There were killed a 43-year-old Spanish teacher Aisha Freud and a 54-year-old tourist from the United States Kurt Kokran. Then Masud attacked a 48-year-old policeman Keith Palmer, who was on duty at the territory adjacent to the parliament. Masuda himself was shot by the police. The terrorist intended to get inside the building.
Later, a 75-year-old resident of London Leslie Rhodes and a 31-year-old tourist from Romania Andrei Krista, who were injured on the Westminster bridge, died in the hospital. In total, about 40 people were injured.
Masud at birth, he received a different name - Edrien Russell Adjao, but changed it from religious beliefs after the adoption of Islam. The British police said that in the past, Masuda was held accountable for causing serious bodily harm, illegal storage of weapons and violation of public order. However, the charges related to terrorist activities were never presented to him.
The responsibility for this terrorist attack was taken by the Islamic State group banned in Britain, Russia and many other countries.
On December 19, in the central part of Berlin, a heavy truck crashed into a crowd of visitors to the Christmas market . The truck drove through the territory of the Fair on Brightshadlaz Square about 80 meters. The driver jumped out of the car and disappeared.
As a result of the collision of a truck, 11 people died. 48 people received injuries of various severity. Many of them are in serious condition. Another murdered, Polish trucker was found in the cab. The terrorist shot him with the theft of a truck. Contractor of the attack, 24-year-old native of Tunisia Anis Amri, on the night of December 23 was shot by police in a suburb of Milan.
On July 14, a similar terrorist attack occurred in French Nice. The 31 -year -old Mukhamed Bulel (more correctly Broat), a native of Tunisia, who had France citizenship and the citizenship of Morocco, during the festivities on the occasion of the day of the Bastille , crashed into a truck into a crowd of celebrating and drove about 2 kilometers before the police shot him.
84 people became victims of the attack, including two citizens of Russia. Another 202, of which two Russians got into hospitals. A three -day mourning was declared in France.