Stockholm incident: Lorry rams people (4 dead, 15 injured)

[bala977]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39531108

A lorry has driven into a store in central Stockholm, killing at least three people, Swedish media say.
Shots have also reportedly been fired.

Swedish police said a number of people were injured, and they are treating it as terrorism.

The incident occurred on Drottninggatan (Queen Street), one of the city's major pedestrian streets, just before 15:00 local time (13:00 GMT).

Witnesses told local media they saw a lorry driving into the window of the Ahlens department store, and they have seen people on the ground.

"There is total confusion, I do not know how many are injured, many people are totally shocked," one witness, Leif Arnmar, who was working in the department store, told Swedish national broadcaster SVT.

 

[MenInG]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39531108

Speechless. Stockholm? You have to be kidding.

A lorry has driven into a store in the centre of the Swedish capital Stockholm, killing at least three people, local media say.
Shots have also reportedly been fired.

Swedish police said a number of people were injured.

The incident took place on Drottninggatan (Queen Street), one of the city's major pedestrian streets, just before 15:00 local time (14:00 GMT).

Witnesses told local media they saw a truck driving into a department store window, and they have seen people on the ground.

Trump appears to be vindicated about his remarks about Sweden a few weeks ago

 

[Saeed]

RIP. Isis is always behind attacks like these. They need to place some kind of barriers next to crowded places.

 

[troodon]

When countries take in thousands of refugees, there will always be bad elements that inflitrate.

Even if 2% of them are bad, that is still quite a big number. Also, the existing non-harmful ones can also be poisoned by people who preach hate.

 

[Gabbar Singh]

Cctv footage of the lorry driving past a store.

http://www.vgtv.no/#!/video/139646/loeper-for-livet

 

[TM Riddle]

When countries take in thousands of refugees, there will always be bad elements that inflitrate.

Even if 2% of them are bad, that is still quite a big number. Also, the existing non-harmful ones can also be poisoned by people who preach hate.

Most of the perpetrators behind such incidents in the past have been those who were born and bred in west.In fact refugees are least likely to commit these crimes according to various studies.

 

[Adil_94]

ISIS sympathiser most likely. These copycat attacks are very hard to stop.

RIP to all the victims.

 

[MenInG]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/07/truck-crashes-in-central-stockholm-sweden

Four people died and 15 were injured after a truck drove into pedestrians on Stockholm’s busiest shopping street and crashed into a department store, in what police were treating as an act of terrorism.

“Sweden has been attacked. Everything points to a terrorist act,” the Swedish prime minister, Stefan Löfven, said shortly after the tragedy on Friday afternoon.

Stockholm was swiftly locked down as armed police cleared the area and launched a manhunt for the suspected driver. Central streets and railway stations were evacuated and warnings were broadcast urging people to flee.

A suspect was arrested on Friday night after a police operation in Märsta, a suburb of Stockholm near Arlanda airport.

Swedish police had earlier issued a picture of a person they said was of interest in connection with the attack. Mats Löfving, the head of the national operations department, said the image, which appeared to be from CCTV footage, was taken close to the time of the incident in the vicinity of the attack.

“I have a picture of a person who has been seen at the location at this point in time. We want to get in contact with this person,” Löfving told a news conference.

Lars Byström, a police spokesman, said two people were being questioned, “but that does not necessarily mean that they are suspects”.

“We want to talk to everybody who knows anything about this and sometimes it’s better to talk at the police station than [at the] place of event,” Byström said. He added that nine of the 15 injured people were seriously hurt.

Witnesses described their terror as the truck careered through the city centre. “I was terrified. I am still shaking. I saw a woman who had lost her legs – it could have been me,” one told Swedish news channel SVT. “The truck went at high speed. It crushed everything in its path.”

Another witness said: “He mowed down eight people and I saw four bodies a little further away. A woman with a small child became completely paralysed and just stood still. I grabbed her and another woman and threw us all into a stairwell.”

 

[Specialisttailender]

Scandinavian countries are the best governed countries in the world. Why would these terrorists thinking about attacking these countries ? . Surprisingly US has done a fantastic job preventing these attacks by weeding out terrorists way before they make a move. US don't mess around.