What we know:
– At 14:53 the police received a call via the emergency number saying that people had been injured on the Drottninggatan street near Klarabergsgatan. They have since confirmed that the vehicle was a truck. and that there are people injured, but have not released details on the extent of injuries and number of people injured.
– Police at the scene told the TT newswire that three people were killed and eight were injured.
– Police also said there are reports of shots being fired in the proximity of the Åhlens city department store but that those reports have not been confirmed.
– Swedish brewery company Spendrups, which owns the truck, said it had been hijacked earlier in the day.
“During a delivery to the restaurant Caliente someone jumped into the driver’s cabin and drove off with the car while the driver unloads,” communications director Mårten Lyth told the TT news agency.- Shots were also fired in the Fridhemsplan district in the north of the city.
– The city’s subway system has been shut down.
– Police have not confirmed multiple reports of an arrest near the scene of the truck crash shortly after 16:00.
– Swedish security police Säpo say that a “large number of people are injured”, and that they are now assisting the police in an investigation. “Intensive intelligence work is being conducted in order to identify the person or persons behind the attack,” they add.
– Swedish PM Stefan Löfven has said that Sweden “has been attacked” in an apparent terrorist incident.
16:31: Police have asked for Stockholm’s central railway station to be emptied, a press spokesperson told news agency TT. Rail services to and from the station are currently suspended.
16:28: No one is currently being allowed to leave the Swedish parliament (Riksdag) building, which lies south of the area where the incident occurred on Drottninggatan. Few MPs are currently present in the building due to it being Friday afternoon.
16:22: A map showing the location of the Åhlens department store where the crash took place.
16:21: Stockholm police have advised the public to stay at home, avoid the city centre and “spread this to those you know”.
16:17: Trains to and from Stockholm’s central railway station have been stopped at the request of the police, national railway operator SJ said, and all of the Stockholm metro is currently closed
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16:08: “Sweden has been attacked. Everything indicates an act of terror,” PM Stefan Löfven said at a press conference on Friday afternoon.
“The government is informed and doing everything to help authorities with it.”
15:54: Swedish brewery company Spendrups, which owns the truck, said it had been hijacked earlier in the day.
“It’s one of our distribution vehicles which runs deliveries. During a delivery to the restaurant Caliente someone jumped into the driver’s cabin and drove off with the car, while the driver unloads,” communication director Mårten Lyth told the TT news agency.
15:50 Video from above the scene.
Something’s happening on Drottninggatan and around Stockholm.
15:49: The police are advising the public to avoid Stockholm city centre near Sergels torg square.
15:41: The police have now confirmed that the vehicle was a truck and that there are reports of shots being fired, but that has not been confirmed.
“A lorry ran over people on Drottninggatan near Klarabergsgatan. There are reports of shots being fired but they have currently not been confirmed. It would have occurred in the proximity of Åhlens city (department store),” the Stockholm police website states.
“There are injured people but we have no further details on the extent of their injuries and the number of people injured.”
15:35: At least three people are believed to have been killed, according to a Sveriges Radio reporter at the scene. A number of people were taken from the scene by ambulance according to TT.
15:33: An eyewitness at the scene told the TT news agency that medical staff were treating injured people on the street at the Drottninggatan/Kungsgatan intersection. “I also saw people with blankets over them,” he said. “The whole body was covered.”
People stood nearby filming until police came and ordered them to move away, the witness added.
15:26: The first images from the scene of the incident are starting to emerge.
Photo: Andreas Schyman/TT
15:20: “At 14:53 we got the call via SOS alarm that some people have injured other people on Drottninggatan near Klarabergsgatan. Now we’re at the scene to deal with it,” a police spokesperson has told The Local.
Police said they currently do not know how many people are injured and are working with emergency services to find out.
“I have no idea where the vehicle is now, this is the information available to me.”
Police would not comment on whether the incident could be terror related, nor what has happened to the vehicle, and stated they are still assessing what has happened.
“I don’t know where the vehicle is at the moment, but we will update that information on our website.”
15:11: Police confirmed in a statement published at 2.53pm that they have received reports that “a person in a vehicle has injured other people”.
Source:Thelocal.se