Stockholm truck attack suspect showed interest in IS

STOCKHOLM: The suspected Stockholm truck attacker had shown interest in extremist groups and was facing deportation after being refused residency, Swedish police said on Sunday, reports AFP.
A second suspect has meanwhile been formally placed under arrest in connection with the attack that killed four people and injured 15 others, the Stockholm district court said on Sunday.
The news came as thousands of people gathered under sunny spring skies amid a sea of flowers and candles to honour the dead and to stand against terrorism.
The first suspect, identified only as a 39-year-old man from Uzbekistan who was arrested hours after Friday's attack, is suspected of having sped a stolen beer truck several hundred metres (yards) down the bustling pedestrian street Drottninggatan in the heart of Stockholm.
The vehicle mowed down shoppers before slamming into the facade of the busy Ahlens department store. The motive for the attack was not known, but the method resembled previous attacks using vehicles in Nice, Berlin and London, all of them claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group.
There has been no immediate claim of responsibility for the Stockholm attack -- the third in Europe in two weeks, after a car and knife assault outside London's parliament and the Saint Petersburg metro bombing.

Stockholm truck attack suspect showed interest in IS

STOCKHOLM: The suspected Stockholm truck attacker had shown interest in extremist groups and was facing deportation after being refused residency, Swedish police said on Sunday, reports AFP. A second suspect has meanwhile been formally placed under arrest in connection with the attack that killed four people and injured 15 others, the Stockholm district court said on Sunday. The news came as thousands of people gathered under sunny spring skies amid a sea of flowers and candles to honour the dead and to stand against terrorism. The first suspect, identified only as a 39-year-old man from Uzbekistan who was arrested hours after Fridays attack, is suspected of having sped a stolen beer truck several hundred metres (yards) down the bustling pedestrian street Drottninggatan in the heart of Stockholm. The vehicle mowed down shoppers before slamming into the facade of the busy Ahlens department store. The motive for the attack was not known, but the method resembled previous attacks using vehicles in Nice, Berlin and London, all of them claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group. There has been no immediate claim of responsibility for the Stockholm attack -- the third in Europe in two weeks, after a car and knife assault outside Londons parliament and the Saint Petersburg metro bombing.