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Stockholm attack suspect was refused residency | |
(35 minutes later) | |
The suspect behind the Stockholm truck attack had been facing deportation and had extremist sympathies, Swedish police say. | |
The 39-year-old Uzbek man is suspected of having driven a truck into a department store in the city on Friday. | |
His application for residency was rejected in June last year and he was being sought by immigration officials, police said. | |
Meanwhile, a second suspect has been placed under formal arrest. | |
Reuters news agency said it was on "a lower degree of suspicion" than the first suspect. | |
The first suspect had been given four weeks to leave the country in December 2016, police chief Jonas Hysing told a press conference. The suspect then disappeared, and police began searching for him, Mr Hysing added. | |
Four people are confirmed to have died in the attack - two Swedish nationals, a Briton and a Belgian, but police have not released their identities. Another 15 people were injured. | |
The truck, hijacked from a beer company, was driven into Ahlens department store in the capital on Friday afternoon. | The truck, hijacked from a beer company, was driven into Ahlens department store in the capital on Friday afternoon. |
The first suspect, who has not been named, was known to the security services and was arrested later on Friday. | |
He had been seen only as a "marginal character", National Police Commissioner Dan Eliasson said. | |
Witnesses: Truck was 'trying to hit people' | |
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Sweden has taken in nearly 200,000 refugees and migrants in recent years - more per capita than any other European country. | |
However, there was a drop in numbers last year after the country introduced new border checks. | |
Separately, Sweden is believed to have the highest number of Islamic State group fighters per capita in Europe. | |
About 140 of the 300 who went to Syria and Iraq have since returned, leaving the authorities to grapple with how best to reintegrate them into society. | |
Thousands of people have gathered in central Stockholm for a "Lovefest" vigil against terrorism, and have laid flowers outside the Ahlens shop in tribute. |