“There is nothing that tells us that we have the wrong person”, Dan Eliason told a news conference Saturday, but added he did not know whether others were involved in the attack.
There has been no immediate claim of responsibility for the Stockholm attack – the third in Europe in two weeks, coming on the heels of the vehicle and knife assault outside London’s parliament and the Saint Petersburg metro bombing.
A police report revealed that the suspect had requested for a resident permit in 2014 but was only officially rejected by the Asylum Board in 2016, declaring that the man should be deported.
Police had been looking for him since Sweden’s Migration Agency in December gave him four weeks to leave, but security services had not viewed him as a militant threat.
Police conducted overnight raids around Stockholm but declined to say if they were hunting any more suspects in the case.
A Foreign Office spokesman said: “Stockholm police have confirmed that a British man was killed during the attack in Stockholm“.
Thornberg said that the agency had looked into information it received on the suspect past year, but that it had not led to anything.
The IS group has also claimed responsibility for a truck attack that killed 86 people in Nice, France, in July and another that killed 12 people at a Christmas market in Berlin. The fourth victim was only known to be a Swedish national. Police said eight people remained hospitalized.
Stockholm authorities said that ten of the injured people are still in hospital, and two of them are in intensive care.
The police said he couldnt confirm or deny if the suspect acted alone.
The man, who was arrested in the north of the city, has not been named, but Swedish media say he is from Uzbekistan, BBC reported.
“Sweden shall come out stronger from this, and we get through this together”, she told the press and mourners gathered near the department store.
“I look up and I see the truck passing by, driving really fast”, he said by phone Saturday. “But we have to find these individuals as well”. “So, terrorists can never defeat Sweden, never”, Lofven said.
Authorities are calling the incident a terror attack, and the former prime minister Carl Bildt is comparing it to similar attacks in Europe over the previous year.
A vigil against terrorism is to be held this afternoon in central Stockholm, as Swedish police pursue their investigation into this week’s deadly truck attack.
Friday’s attack in Stockholm deeply shocked the usually tranquil Scandinavian nation, which prides itself on its openness and tolerance.
The attack in Stockholm joins a growing pattern of vehicles being used to launch attacks on pedestrians. The building includes several stores at street-level.
