A truck plowed over pedestrians in central Stockholm, killing at least three people. Swedish broadcaster SVT says shots have been fired in the area. Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven says everything indicates the truck crash is “a terror attack.”
A manhunt is underway and a photo of the suspect has been released.
After hitting people, the truck crashed into a department store and started a fire. The large truck crash happened in a busy shopping district on the street of Drottninggatan.
The truck was a Spendrups brewery truck and was hijacked from driver, who was uninjured.
The Swedish news agency TT says several people have been taken away in ambulances to hospitals
Videos show hundreds of people running for their lives in the streets of Stockholm.
Currently, the Stockholm train stations are shut down because there is allegedly an active shooter “loose in building.”
This comes after trucks were used in terror attacks in Nice and Berlin last year.