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WORLD NEWSSaturday 8 April 2017
Stolen truck kills 4 in Stockholm; Sweden calls it terror
DAVID KEYTON The rear of a truck, left, protrudes after it crashed into a department store injuring several people tion, a hub for regional
JAN M. OLSEN in central Stockholm, Sweden, Friday April 7, 2017. trains and the subway sys-
Associated Press tem.
STOCKHOLM (AP) — A hi- (Anders Wiklund , TT News Agency via AP) All trains to and from the
jacked beer truck plowed main station were halted
into pedestrians at a cen- such a goal will never be department store about 3 heter. “Some women were and several large shop-
tral Stockholm department achieved in Sweden.” p.m. It came to rest in the screaming, ‘Run! Run!’” ping malls in Stockholm
store on Friday, killing four There was no immediate entrance to the building. Late into the night, foren- were shut down.
people, wounding 15 oth- claim of responsibility for TV footage showed smoke sic experts in full white suits Sweden’s national theater,
ers and sending screaming the attack. Police arrested coming out of the store af- could be seen working on Dramaten, canceled three
shoppers fleeing in panic a man in Marsta, a northern ter the crash. the truck, collecting evi- performances Friday eve-
in what Sweden’s prime Stockholm suburb close to “People were screaming dence. ning.
minister called a terrorist the city’s international air- and running in all direc- Although there was initial Jan Evensson of the Stock-
attack. port, as a possible suspect. tions,” said Brandon Sekitto, confusion on the number holm police told a news
A nationwide manhunt The stolen beer truck trav- who was in his car nearby. of victims, police told re- conference that the man
was launched and one eled for more than 500 “(The truck) drove straight porters in the evening that who was arrested looked
person was arrested fol- yards (meters) along a main into the Ahlens entrance.” four people had been like the person depicted
lowing the latest use of a pedestrian street known as “I saw the driver, a man in killed and 15 were wound- wearing a greenish hood
vehicle as a weapon in Eu- the Drottninggatan before black who was light around ed, nine of them seriously. in a surveillance camera
rope. it smashed into a crowd the face,” Brandon told Authorities evacuated the photo that police released
Nearby buildings were outside the upscale Ahlens Swedish daily Dagens Ny- city’s nearby Central Sta- earlier. He said police were
locked down for hours in “particularly interested” in
the heart of the capital him.
— including the country’s “We continue to investi-
parliament — and the gate at full force,” Evens-
main train station and sev- son said, urging people not
eral large malls were evac- to go to central Stockholm
uated. on Friday night.
“Sweden has been at- Stefan Hector of Sweden’s
tacked,” Prime Minister national police said the
Stefan Lofven said in a working hypothesis was
nationally televised press that “this is an act of ter-
conference. “This indicates ror.”
that it is an act of terror.” “We will be working as long
Later Friday night, Lofven as necessary” to deter-
laid a bouquet of red roses mine who was responsible,
and lit a candle near the Stockholm police spokes-
site of the attack. man Lars Bystrom told The
“The country is in a state Associated Press.
of shock,” he said. “The The Swedish brewery Spen-
aim of terrorism is to un- drups said one of its trucks
dermine democracy. But had been hijacked just a
few blocks from the crash
Spain: ETA should disband and clear unresolved crimes scene earlier Friday.
“It is one of our delivery
ARITZ PARRA arm and to disband,” said day in southern France, as ETA killed 829 people and trucks.
Associated Press the conservative cabinet’s announced earlier. Spain injured thousands over 43 In connection with a deliv-
MADRID (AP) — Spain will spokesman, Inigo Mendez says ETA shouldn’t be ap- years of armed campaign. ery to a restaurant called
offer nothing in return for de Vigo, during a weekly plauded for the move be- With the violence ended, Caliente, someone jumped
the disarmament of the briefing with reporters. cause it had already been ETA and its supporters say into the truck and drove it
Basque separatist group In a letter Friday to the BBC, defeated by the hard work its members jailed in Spain away while the driver was
ETA, a government spokes- ETA declared itself a weap- of police and judges which and France should be al- unloading his delivery,”
man said Friday, urging the ons-free organization after led to a cease-fire in 2011. lowed to complete their Spendrups spokesman
militants to disband and giving up its entire arsenal to Spain and France had re- sentences in prisons in the Marten Luth told the Swed-
help authorities clear up civil society groups. It con- fused for the past 5½ years Basque region. Basque ish news agency TT.
unsolved crimes attributed firmed the mediators, who to negotiate with ETA over nationalists consider the The beer company’s truck
to the organization. call themselves “peace the future of imprisoned region across both sides of driver was not injured, he
“What the government artisans,” would complete members and other long- the western Pyrenees as a said.
expects is for ETA to dis- the disarmament Satur- time demands. country.q The truck crash appeared
to be the latest attack in
Europe using a vehicle. q
