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1st LD: Swedish police arrest man after attack

Xinhua, April 7, 2017 Adjust font size:

Swedish police have arrested a man in the north of Stockholm in an operation on Friday night, according to the Swedish paper Aftonbladet on Friday.

The man, arrested in Marsta, had minor injuries and said that he is guilty of the attack in Stockholm, Aftonbladet reported.

According to the latest reports from Swedish Television, the police have identified the person arrested in Marsta. There were similarities with the person in the picture released by police earlier in the evening. The arrested person should have been in the vicinity of the truck in time and space.

In the latest press conference, Jan Evensson from the Stockholm police said that the focus of the last few hours have been chasing the culprit, secure investigation.

The death toll of the Stockholm attack has rised to four, as one victim died in hospital. Swedish Television quoted hospital sources at Karolinska Institutet as saying that the number of injured people from the attack earlier had reached 15. Endit