Swedish police say truck attack suspect showed ISIS sympathies

“The consideration people are showing each other shows the strength of our society”, he said.

“A technical examination is ongoing, we can’t go into what it is right now… whether it’s a bomb or a flammable device”, Eliasson said.

Trudeau says he and his wife are praying for a speedy recovery for the injured in Stockholm.

“We will never surrender to terror”, Lofven said in his speech outside Stockholm’s city hall, as flags flew at half-mast across the capital and church bells chimed while shoppers and tourists thronged the city centre.

“We received intelligence a year ago, but we did not see any links to extremist circles”, Sapo security police chief Anders Thornberg said.

Lofven said the government was doing everything possible to help the security services.

Police official Jonas Hysing told a news conference: “We know that he showed sympathies for extremist organisations, among them IS”.

Swedish police said Saturday that they had found a “device” in the truck that they were investigating.

The truck ploughed through crowds of people in the busy shopping street before crashing into a department store and catching fire.

“That is what we’re going to build on”, she said, praising a city “characterised by openness and tolerance”.

The statement said the two leaders agreed on the importance of working together to tackle these threats. A fifth victim who was knocked off the bridge and into the River Thames below died after her life-support was switched off this week.

Swedish prosecutors on Sunday arrested a second person in connection with the truck attack case for suspected crimes against the nation and were holding four other people. It said two were in intensive care, four were seriously injured but the one child was not seriously hurt.

The man suspected of carrying out the truck attack in Stockholm was an asylum seeker who was being sought by authorities for deportation, Swedish police say.

Swedish police have identified a 39-year-old man originally from Uzbekistan as the suspected driver. Police said eight people remained hospitalised.

They added that authorities had been seeking the 39-year-old suspect for deportation, adding that he had expressed interest in militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq.

The suspected driver of the stolen truck that mowed down pedestrians in central Stockholm last week, killing four people, has allegedly confessed to the attack, daily Expressen reported on Sunday.

Police spokesman Lars Bystrom told The Associated Press on Saturday: “Yes, it is correct, it is likely him”.

Swedish authorities believe they’ve arrested the person who hijacked a beer truck and plowed it into a crowd of pedestrians.