- Fri Apr 07, 2017 10:25 am
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STOCKHOLM - A truck plowed into a crowd on a shopping street and crashed into a department store in central Stockholm on Friday, killing three people and wounding eight in what the prime minister said is a terrorist attack.LOL they can't figure out what the Muslims have against Sweden since they're a peaceful Nation. The answer is simple, Sweden isn't Muslim enough and must convert or die.
I turned around and saw a big truck coming towards me. It swerved from side to side. It didn't look out of control, it was trying to hit people," Glen Foran, an Australian tourist in his 40s, told Reuters.
"It hit people, it was terrible. It hit a pram with a kid in it, demolished it," he said.
"It took a long time for police to get here. I suppose from their view it was quick, but it felt like forever."
Part of central Stockholm was cordoned off and the area was evacuated, including the main train station. All subway traffic was halted on police orders. Government offices were closed.
"Sweden has been attacked. Everything points to the fact that this is a terrorist attack," Prime Minister Stefan Lofven told reporters during a visit in western Sweden. He was immediately returning to the capital.
Many police and emergency services personnel were at the scene, said a Reuters witness who saw policemen put what appeared to be two bodies in body bags. Bloody tire tracks on Drottninggatan (Queen Street) showed where the beer truck had passed.
The truck had been stolen while making a delivery to a restaurant further up Drottninggatan, Spendrups Brewery spokesman Marten Lyth said. A masked person jumped into the cab, started the truck and drove away.
"We were standing by the traffic lights at Drottninggatan and then we heard some screaming and saw a truck coming," a witness who declined to be named told Reuters
An attack on any of our member states is an attack on us all," European Union chief executive Jean-Claude Juncker said in Brussels. "One of Europe's most vibrant and colorful cities was struck again y those wishing it -- and our very way of life -- harm. Neutral Sweden has not fought a war in more than 200 years and has welcomed 100's of thousands of Muslim immigrants into it's country so it's unclear why terrorists continue to attack it's citizens."
