[h=1]Third terror suspect is arrested after a five-hour manhunt and CONFESSES to ramming a truck into shoppers in Stockholm and killing at least four people before fleeing a dramatic shootout[/h]
WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Carnage on streets of Swedish capital leaves four dead and 15 more hurt
Masked man hijacked beer truck and ploughed into crowds outside Stockholm's largest shopping centre
Up to three men were seen leaping from the lorry and opening fire on officers and pedestrians at around 3pm
Two suspects were filmed being detained but a third man then went on run before being caught around 8pm
Police have arrested a terror suspect who has confessed to ramming a 30-tonne truck into shoppers in Stockholm, killing at least four people. The man went on the run after fleeing the scene following a chaotic shootout. The 'lightly injured' suspect was arrested in Marsta, a suburb north of Stockholm, after members of the public contacted police to say he was acting strangely. According to Aftonbladet, he is 39-years-old and was arrested wearing a balaclava and with broken glass on his clothes. The Swedish tabloid reported that he has expressed support for Islamic State on the Internet. The hijacked vehicle crashed into a packed shopping centre and burst into flames. Three men jumped out from inside and opened fire before trying to stab pedestrians, witnesses said. Two men were tackled to the ground and arrested but a third suspect went on the loose. Police released CCTV of the man wearing a green jacket, white shoes and a grey hoodie. Police have confirmed the suspect arrested in Marsta resembles the man in the photos they released earlier. Officers said the vehicle crashed into a group of people on the street outside a shopping centre in Klarabergsgatan after racing down six streets at about 3pm local time. Hundreds of shoppers were seen fleeing for their lives after the articulated lorry rammed into the corner of the building. Horrifying images of the aftermath showed blood smeared on the roads and bodies covered by blankets. Police said 15 people were injured - 9 of them seriously. Stockholm Police said they were questioning the two men arrested in the immediate aftermath of the attack but they are not currently suspected of criminal activity.
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Police have arrested a terror suspect who has confessed to ramming a truck into shoppers in Stockholm, killing at least four people. Officers said he resembled the man in photos they issued earlier
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This medic, wearing green overalls, was seen running around the scene of the attack by Ahlens, a department store in Klarabergsgatan, covering bodies with orange blankets
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The hijacked vehicle crashed into a packed shopping centre and burst into flames. Three men jumped out from inside and opened fire before trying to stab pedestrians, witnesses said. This photo shows shoppers fleeing the scene
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Armed police swarm around the truck, which was reported stolen from Spendrups Brewery. The foam is from a fire extinguisher that officers used to put out the flames
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A man in scrubs was seen walking along the street with several bodies, which have been covered by blankets, behind him. At least four people have died
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An injured person being carried from the chaotic scenes at Ahlens, a department store in Stockholm where the lorry crashed
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The back of the truck, sticking out of the shopping centre, is seen here moments after ramming several people as they were out shopping
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Memorial candles are left outside the Swedish Embassy on a rainy night in Helsinki, Finland. Others took to social media to give their tributes
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Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has laid a bouquet of red roses and lit a candle outside the Ahlens store. He said: 'We know that our enemies are these atrocious murderers and not each other'
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The Prime Minister added: 'Our message will always be clear: you will not defeat us, you will not govern our lives, you will never ever win'
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Shoppers described how severed limbs and bodies were left littered across a blood-splattered Stockholm street yesterday in a scene reminiscent of a ‘warzone’
A police spokesman said: 'I can confirm that we have taken in two people for questioning, but that does not necessary means that they are suspects.' Following the lorry crash, armed terrorists were seen running into Stockholm's Central railway station and opening fire. Two people were also said to have been stabbed. Spendrups Brewery said the truck belonged to its company and was stolen. The truck's driver, who has not been named, was hurt in the hijacking after trying to cling to the vehicle. He had climbed out of the cab while delivering its cargo of beer. At least one man, wearing a balaclava, took the chance to climb in and drove off, knocking the victim over as he tried to get back on board. He was injured, but not seriously. Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has laid a bouquet of red roses and lit a candle outside the Ahlens store. The terror attack came weeks after the Westminster Bridge killer Khalid Masood used a car to murder five people before stabbing a policeman to death outside Parliament. Last year, ISIS terrorists used trucks to kill dozens in Berlin and Nice. After yet another terror attack on European soil, MailOnline understands:
Terror suspect jumped into cab of a beer lorry while its driver was making a delivery
Masked man sped through central Stockholm aiming at pedestrians before crashing into the Åhlens department store Klarabergsgatan. At least four people are dead and 15 injured
Witnesses heard shots fired and two suspects were filed being arrested in the street
Police have confirmed a third suspect has been arrested and admitted responsibility for the attack
Stockholm's main railway station was shut down
The tube network was also closed amid fears fugitive is hiding underground but is now open
Horrifying images show streets smeared with blood and bodies covered in blankets
Prime Minister Stefan Lofven says the truck crash 'is an act of terror' and urges public to clear the streets
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This is the route the truck attackers took through the centre of Stockholm before they ploughed into a group of shoppers
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People were seen running for their lives after a truck crashed into Ahlens, a department store in Klarabergsgatan, at around 3pm local time
This photo shows two men being apprehended by Stockholm Police at around the time of the attack. Witnesses said one of these men is the driver but this has not been confirmed by officers
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A man is detained inside the police security cordon. Prime Minister Stefan Löfven said everything pointed to the incident being a terror attack
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A man is carried away by officers wearing suits as a policewoman armed with a pistol watches on. Swedish police carry handguns as standard
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A heavily-armed policeman sprints across the road near the department store. Security is being beefed up in other European cities in the wake of the attack
A fire extinguisher was seen being sprayed on to the vehicle after the incident. Armed police were scrambled to the scene and stormed into the store. Witnesses described seeing a 'lone man' put a balaclava over his face before he drove the drunk into crowds of people. Nils Bengtsson told of the moment when he realised it was a terror attack. 'I heard a loud bang and people screaming,' he said. [h=3]BRITISH TOURIST WITNESSED THE ATTACK[/h]A British journalist who was on holiday in Stockholm described seeing 'lifeless bodies' covered with towels after the suspected terror attack.
Harriet Rose-Gale, 26, from Marlborough, Wiltshire, was eating her lunch when a truck ploughed into pedestrians in the centre of the city.
She said: 'I walked up the road and we could just see a lorry, a truck, and what we could only assume was a lifeless body in front of it.
'It had a peach or orange towel covering it and there was another body with a white sheet in the middle of the road.
'There were armed police running past us and shouting in Swedish. I don't know what they were saying.'
'I then saw the truck coming towards me. Then I started to think about what happened in Nice and realised that the same thing is happening here in front of me. 'The truck was driving really fast and drove towards people at full force. I was about 100 metres [300ft] from where the truck crashed. 'I was afraid about what I might see… but I wanted to help so I left the shop and walked out and I was met by chaos. 'There were injured people everywhere around the truck. 'The truck was driving really fast. I saw both people and objects flying around the vehicle. 'People around me were in shock. Everyone was crying and screaming. It felt like being in a warzone. 'There were several hundred people on the street. I saw at least three or four dead bodies on the street where the truck had crashed.' Yosef Jawad said he saw an English-speaking woman collapsed on a zebra crossing and screaming: 'My legs, my legs.' 'Her feet hung loose and there was blood everywhere,' he said. 'I'm from the Middle East, you see very bad things on TV from Iraq, but this was terrible.' Radio presenter Martin Svennigsen said he tried desperately to save those who had been crushed by the vehicle. 'There was blood everywhere. I saw two shattered bodies and tried to save a third, but could not. I leaned back and closed his eyes,' he told Swedish newspaper Expressen.
A view of the site where the truck drove into Åhlens department store in Klarabergsgatan, left and right. The foam, seen right, is from a fire extinguisher used to dampen the flames
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Blood was seen on the streets outside of the shopping centre where at least four people were killed and 15 more injured
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Emergency services were seen tending to injured people and putting blankets over those who had been killed
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The 'lightly injured' suspect was arrested in Marsta, a suburb north of Stockholm, after members of the public contacted police to say he was acting strangely. Pictured is a police block near to where the arrest took place
Emergency services cordoned off the area around the department store. Bodies were covered in orange blankets
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This terrifying security camera footage shows shoppers piling into a clothes store as the terrorist truck speeds past
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The Swedish capital was put on lockdown with residents warned to stay inside as police launched a major manhunt to catch the killer
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All trains in and out of the city were cancelled and motorists were told to stay away from the centre. The use of a lorry to mow down a crowd is more reminiscent of terror attacks in Nice and Berlin last year.
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Police hold a news conference to brief the press on the manhunt. Picture, from left is Anders Thornberg, Swedish Security Service, Dan Eliasson, National Police Commissioner and Mats Löfving, Deputy Director of the Swedish Police Authority
Jan Granroth was inside a shoe shop when he heard screams. He told Swedish daily Aftonbladet: 'We stood inside a shoe store and people started screaming. So I looked out of the store and I saw a huge truck slam into the wall opposite.' [h=3]ATTACK MIRRORS TERROR INCIDENT IN STOCKHOLM IN 2010[/h]The incident in the Swedish capital this afternoon mirrored a terror attack in central Stockholm in December 2010.
A fortnight before Christmas, a car blew up in a busy shopping area in Drottninggatan, followed moments later by a second explosion nearby.
The suicide bomber who blew himself up was identified as Iraqi man Taimour-Al-Abdaly, 28, who graduated with a BSc in sports therapy at the University of Bedfordshire in 2004.
He rigged an Audi car with explosives in the hope it would drive people to Drottninggatan, a busy shopping street about 200 yards away, where he was waiting to set off two more devices strapped to his chest and back.
The car bomb never went off, and after setting fire to the Audi he was unable to detonate the other two explosives as planned.
He made his way down a side street off Drottninggatan and, in an apparent attempt to fix the faulty trigger up his sleeve, set off the bomb on the front of his body, killing only himself.
According to investigations by FBI, the bombing would likely have killed between 30 and 40 people had it succeeded.
In March 2011, Strathclyde Police in Scotland arrested 30-year-old Nasserdine Menni in the Whiteinch area of Glasgow in connection with the Stockholm bombing.
He was jailed for seven years in 2012 after being found guilty of supplying money.
Mr Granroth managed to escape after running through an emergency exit. Another witness, called Dimitris, described the panic and saw 'at least' two people being run over. He said: 'I went to the main street when a big truck came out of nowhere. I could not see if anyone was driving it but it got out of control. 'I saw at least two being run over - I ran as fast as I could.' A woman, called Anna, witnessed the incident and described seeing 'hundreds of people running for their lives'. She said: 'I turned and ran after seeing hundreds of people running, they ran for their lives.' Shocking video showed hundreds of terrified shoppers sprint for their lives after the truck rammed into pedestrians. Other footage shows shoppers piling into a clothes store as the terrorist truck speeds past. Just moments after the suspected terrorist incident, armed police wearing gas masks arrived at the scene and shut off the busy road in the centre of the capital. Maria Nathalie was on the top floor of the store when the fire alarm was triggered. Speaking on the phone, she told NBC: 'People started running down the stairs when the fire alarm started. 'When we came down to the bottom of the building all we could see was a lot of smoke.' As the centre of the city began to clear this afternoon, the blood stains could be seen as bodies covered in blankets were left on the road. Paramedics desperately treated injured people near the lorry after they had been caught up in the attack. Terrified eyewitness Veronica Durango, 42, miraculously escaped and was just one metre away from being struck by the vehicle. She told Expressen: 'I could have died.' The Swedish royal family has issued a statement in which they say they have learned with dismay of the events. 'We follow the developments and our thoughts are with the victims and their families.' Security was being beefed up across European cities in the wake of the Stockholm attack. In Norway, one of the few European countries where police are not routinely armed, officials announced that officers in major urban areas would now carry firearms. In a tweet, Norwegian Police said officers in its largest cities and at Oslo’s airport would be carrying weapons until further notice.
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In Finland, police increased patrols in the capital Helsinki. Last night, as world leaders sent messages of condolence, Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf said his ‘thoughts are going out to those that were affected, and to their families’. Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said that it 'looks like we have seen a despicable act of terrorism' which was aimed at 'harming innocent people'. Speaking just weeks after the Westminster terror attack, Mr Khan said that 'we will never allow terrorists to succeed' after a truck ploughed into people in Stockholm. He said: 'My thoughts and deepest sympathies are with the victims and the families who have been affected by the horrific attack in Stockholm today. 'The full details are still emerging, but once again it looks like we have seen a despicable act of terrorism aimed at harming innocent people and attacking our shared values of democracy, freedom, justice and tolerance. 'Londoners know how it feels to suffer from senseless and cowardly terrorism. And I know we share a steely determination with the people of Stockholm that we will never allow terrorists to succeed. 'We will never be cowed by terrorism, and today - London stands united with Stockholm and Londoners stand with the people of Stockholm.'
[h=3]How vehicles became terrorists' favourite weapons[/h]Terrorists using cars and lorries to run down people like in Westminster, Nice, Berlin and now Stockholm 'is becoming the standard of an attack' security experts warned.
Low tech attacks using stolen and hired vehicles to randomly rammed into crowds, were becoming increasing common by terrorists unable to get hold of guns and explosives.
It is 'nigh on impossible' for security services to monitor and stop potential terrorists planning such murders and the only way to prevent them is by using barriers to protect pedestrians.
Managing Director of Corporate Security Services Will Geddes said attacks of this kind will likely increase.
He said: 'We have seen a marked increase since the attacks in Nice last year and there is every good chance it will become regular as it is a very easy platform to deliver an attack.
'It is incredibly difficult to stop these things. We have seen something today in Stockholm which is increasingly difficult to stop and we are going to see a drastic increase in the protection of pedestrianised areas.
'Whether they are going to be permanent or temporary, time will tell. It is very difficult to stop, nigh on impossible.'
There have been five attacks using cars and trucks in the past nine months. London
On 22 March, Khalid Masood, 52, drove a Hyundai 4x4 over Westminster Bridge, mowing down members of the public before crashing into a fence beside Big Ben.
He then got out of the car and attacked PC Keith Palmer with a knife.
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Masood was shot twice by police and died when he was taken to hospital.
Five people died in the attack, including PC Palmer. Antwerp
The day after the Westminster attack, a man in Antwerp drove into a crowded shopping area in the Belgian city in an attempted attack, but no one was injured.
Prosecutors today dropped terrorism charges against Mohamed R. as there was not enough evidence.
He remains in custody on a weapons offence related to the incident. Jerusalem
On January 8, a Palestinian lorry driver mowed down and then reversed over Israeli soldiers, killing four and wounding 15 people, in a shocking copycat of the Berlin and Nice terror massacres.
Shocking video from the scene showed the driver reversing back over the soldiers, trapping ten under his wheels, during the sickening attack. Berlin
A copycat ISIS-inspired massacre took place in Germany when a terrorist drove a truck through a Christmas market in Berlin.
Twelve people were killed in the attack on December 19.
Anis Amri stole a cargo truck and killed 12 people when he drove through a Christmas market next to the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church at Breitscheidplatz.
Among the dozen people killed was the original driver of the truck Lukasz Urban who was found dead with a gunshot wound in the passenger street.
Amri was a Tunisian who had failed to gain asylum status in the country.
He was killed in Milan four days later after an international manhunt. Nice
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On Bastille Day in the summer of last year, 86 people were killed when a truck was driven through crowds enjoying fireworks in Nice.
On the evening of July 14, 2016, a 19-tonne cargo truck was driven into crowds on the Promenage des Anglais.
ISIS fanatic Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel was behind the wheel and after exchanging gunfire with police, the Tunisian migrant was shot dead.
Thousands had gathered on the seafront to watch the fireworks that night.
86 of them died and 434 were injured.
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Armed police patrol outside the central station in Stockholm where people have been evacuated from the station
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Bystanders were seen comforting each other outside of the Central station, where another incident is said to have happened
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Several people were seen shocked and saddened by the attacks. Prime Minister Stefan Löfven said everything pointed to the incident being a terror attack
[h=3]Shopping centres targeted by terrorists around the world[/h]Since 2013, there have been at least four terror attacks at shopping centres. Munich
On July 23, German-Iranian man Ali Sonboly, 18, attacked a mall in Munich, Germany, killing nine and wounding 27.
He opened fire in a McDonald's and had no link to ISIS.
The man shouted 'I am German' as he wielded a Glock 17 semi-automatic pistol.
Munich police said a motive was 'completely unclear', but some said he was inspired by Norwegian Anders Brevik, who killed 77 on Utøya island.
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Police officers escort people from inside the shopping center as they respond to the shooting at the Olympia Einkaufzentrum in Munich
Essen threat
On March 11, a shopping centre in Essen, western Germany, was closed after police had 'concrete indications' of a terror attack.
Police searched a flat 12 miles away from Limbecker Platz mall and questioned the owner of the apartment.
A second man was also questioned. Antwerp
On March 23, the day after the Westminster terror attack, a man drove a car into crowds at the Meir shopping area in Antwerp, Belgium.
No one was hurt and the man, Mohamed R., 39, was taken into custody.
Prosecutors have dropped terrorism charges as they said there was not enough evidence.
But he is still being held on a weapons offence related to the incident. Nairobi
On September 21 2013, a gunman killed 67 and injured 175 in an attack on a shopping mall in Nairobi.
The extremist Islamic group al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the incident.
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Women carrying children run for safety as armed police hunt gunmen who went on a shooting spree in Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi
