Sweden: Truck crash into Stockholm store, terror attack PM says

A large beer truck crashed into an upscale department store in central Stockholm on Friday, killing at least two people,  according to Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven, who said all indications were that it was a terror attack. One person was arrested. But a spokesperson for the police said they cannot confirm whether anyone had been arrested yet, according to Reuters.
"We are thinking of the dead and the injured and their families. I am urging the public to be vigilant and keep updating the police," Lofven said.

People in the downtown area fled in panic, and Stockholm's Central Station for trains and the subway, which is a few hundred yards from the scene, was evacuated. The incident occurred just before 13:00GMT at the corner of the Ahlens department store and Drottninggatan, the city's biggest pedestrian street, above-ground from Stockholm's central subway station.

"We stood inside a shoe store and heard something … and then people started to scream," witness Jan Granroth told the Aftonbladet daily. "I looked out of the store and saw a big truck."
Swedish brewery company Spendrups, which owns the truck, said it had been hijacked earlier in the day. "During a delivery to the restaurant Caliente someone jumped into the driver's cabin and drove off with the car while the driver unloads," communications director Mårten Lyth told the TT news agency.

Several attacks in which trucks or cars have driven into crowds have taken place in Europe in the past year.

In London last month, a man in a car ploughed into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge, killing four, and then stabbed a policeman to death before being shot by police. In Nice, France, last July, a truck killed 86 people celebrating Bastille Day, and one in Berlin in December smashed through a Christmas market, killing 12 people.