
This is the moment Swedish police snared a suspected Isis fanatic following a high-speed chase and arrested him in relation to the Stockholm truck attack that saw at least four people killed and 15 injured.

The 39-year-old father-of-four was arrested in the northern suburb of Marsta after going on the run following the attack, reported Swedish newspaper Aftonblat.

The man, believed to be from Uzbekistan, was wearing a balaclava, with broken glass on his clothes. He reportedly confessed to being involved in the atrocity.

Police suspect he was behind the wheel of the truck, although other security sources reported in Swedish media said the driver is still at large.

He had posted Isis propaganda on Facebook and liked pictures of casualties after the terrorist attack on the Boston Marathon in 2013, Aftonblat reported.

A further arrest was made at 11pm last night in the Stockholm suburb of Hjulsta, according to Swedish newspaper Expressen.

Pictures show the second man, who looked younger, being handcuffed and taken away in a police car. According to Swedish television, the two arrested men are linked.

Photographer Janne Akkeson, who witnessed the arrest in Hjulsta, said: ‘There were about 15 police cars at the scene. There was a specialist terrorist SWAT team and sniffer dogs.'

This image shows the second man who was arrested by Swedish terror police late last night in Hjulsta. Witnesses described seeing up to a dozen police cars swoop and arrest the man

According to broadcaster SVT, this suspect was arrested in the northern suburb Hjulsta and he is said to be connected to the man who was arrested earlier in the evening (see video above)

Swedish police are continuing to hunt the driver of a 30-tonne stolen truck that ploughed into shoppers in Stockholm, killing four and injuring 15

Swedish police confirmed earlier on Friday that it had identified a person arrested in another Stockholm suburb and who resembled the picture and description of a man that police went public with after the truck attack

Officers said the suspect arrested first on Friday evening resembled the man in photos they issued as part of an earlier appeal (left and right)

This medic, wearing green overalls, was seen running outside Ahlens, a department store in Klarabergsgatan, covering bodies with orange blankets

The hijacked vehicle crashed into a packed shopping centre and burst into flames. Three men jumped out from inside and opened fire before trying to stab pedestrians, witnesses said. This photo shows shoppers fleeing the scene

Armed police swarm around the truck, which was reported stolen from Spendrups Brewery. The foam is from a fire extinguisher that officers used to put out the flames

This image shows the beer truck being towed out of the Ahlens department store on Friday evening during recovery work after the incident

The shattered truck was pulled away by a recovery van under the watchful eye of heavily-armed police officers

A man in scrubs was seen walking along the street with several bodies, which have been covered by blankets, behind him. At least four people have died

This image shows an injured person being carried from the chaotic scenes at Ahlens, a department store in Stockholm where the lorry crashed

The back of the truck, sticking out of the shopping centre, is seen here moments after ramming several people as they were out shopping

Memorial candles are left outside the Swedish Embassy in Helsinki, Finland. Others took to social media to voice their tributes

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has laid a bouquet of red roses and lit a candle outside the Ahlens store. He said: 'We know that our enemies are these atrocious murderers and not each other'

The Prime Minister added: 'Our message will always be clear: you will not defeat us, you will not govern our lives, you will never ever win'

Shoppers described how severed limbs and bodies were left littered across a blood-splattered Stockholm street yesterday in a scene reminiscent of a ‘warzone’

During the attack, which happened around 3pm local time, a hijacked 30-tonne truck ploughed down pedestrians before crashing into a shopping centre and bursting into flames.

One witness said a pram was hurled into the air and desperate pedestrians ran for their lives as the lorry crushed everything in its path.

Three men jumped out from inside the lorry and opened fire before trying to stab pedestrians, witnesses said.

Two men were tackled to the ground and arrested. Police questioned them but said they were not suspected of any crime.

Police released CCTV of the man who ran away, who was wearing a green jacket, white shoes and a grey hoodie.

Officers said the first suspect arrested on Friday evening in Marsta resembled the man in the appeal photos.

Hundreds of shoppers had to flee for their lives after the articulated lorry rammed into the corner of the Ahlens department store.

Horrifying images of the aftermath showed blood smeared on the roads and bodies covered by blankets.

Following the lorry crash, armed terrorists were seen running into Stockholm's Central railway station and opening fire. Two people were also said to have been stabbed.

Spendrups Brewery said the truck belonged to its company and was stolen.

The vehicle's original driver, who has not been named, was hurt in the hijacking after trying to cling to the vehicle.

He had climbed out of the cab while delivering its cargo of beer. At least one man, wearing a balaclava, took the chance to climb in and drove off, knocking the victim over as he tried to get back on board. He was injured, but not seriously.

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has laid a bouquet of red roses and lit a candle outside the Ahlens store.

The terror attack came just 16 days after the Westminster Bridge killer Khalid Masood used a car to murder five people before stabbing a policeman to death outside Parliament.

Last year, ISIS terrorists used trucks to kill dozens in Berlin and Nice.

After yet another terror attack on European soil, MailOnline understands:

Terror suspect jumped into cab of a beer lorry while its driver was making a delivery

Masked man sped through central Stockholm aiming at pedestrians before crashing into the Åhlens department store on Klarabergsgatan. At least four people died and 15 were injured

Witnesses heard shots fired and two suspects were filmed being detained in the street

A 39-year-old father-of-four was arrested in the northern suburb of Marsta

And there was a further arrest of a younger man at 11pm in nearby Hjulsta

People were seen running for their lives after a truck crashed into Ahlens, a department store in Klarabergsgatan, at around 3pm local time

This photo shows two men being apprehended by Stockholm Police around the time of the attack. Witnesses said one of these men is the driver but this has not been confirmed by officers

A man is detained inside the police security cordon. Prime Minister Stefan Löfven said everything pointed to the incident being a terror attack

A man is carried away by officers wearing suits as a policewoman armed with a pistol watches on. Swedish police carry handguns as standard

A heavily-armed policeman sprints across the road near the department store. Security is being beefed up in other European cities in the wake of the attack

Witnesses described how severed limbs and bodies were left littered across the blood-splattered Drottninggatan in a scene reminiscent of a ‘warzone’.

Many told how they had been browsing in busy stores when the lorry came hurtling towards them.

One told of bodies and blood ‘everywhere’ and even a dead dog with its owner screaming beside it.

BRITISH TOURIST WITNESSED THE ATTACK A British journalist who was on holiday in Stockholm described seeing 'lifeless bodies' covered with towels after the suspected terror attack. Harriet Rose-Gale, 26, from Marlborough, Wiltshire, was eating her lunch when a truck ploughed into pedestrians in the centre of the city. She said: 'I walked up the road and we could just see a lorry, a truck, and what we could only assume was a lifeless body in front of it. 'It had a peach or orange towel covering it and there was another body with a white sheet in the middle of the road. 'There were armed police running past us and shouting in Swedish. I don't know what they were saying.' Advertisement

Nils Bengtsson told of the moment when he realised it was a terror attack: 'I heard a loud bang and people screaming,' he said.

'I then saw the truck coming towards me. Then I started to think about what happened in Nice and realised that the same thing is happening here in front of me.

'The truck was driving really fast and drove towards people at full force. I was about 100 metres [300ft] from where the truck crashed.

'I was afraid about what I might see… but I wanted to help so I left the shop and walked out and I was met by chaos.

'There were injured people everywhere around the truck.

'People around me were in shock. Everyone was crying and screaming. It felt like being in a warzone.

'There were several hundred people on the street. I saw at least three or four dead bodies on the street where the truck had crashed.'

Christoffer Ung told TT news agency: ‘I was on my way to the exit and just saw the wall coming towards us like an avalanche.

‘People turned in panic and fled towards the exits. My first thought was that a bomb had exploded. When I came out of the building I saw flames emerging from it.’

Store manager Malin Emto said: ‘Suddenly there was a customer who had a panic attack and started screaming. We ran to the window and saw two dead bodies, badly mangled.’

Besarta Gashi, 31, who is pregnant, said she and her nine-year-old daughter Leonida were feet from being crushed by the lorry.

‘We heard screams. We started to run but did not know where it came from. Just then the truck came a hair’s breadth away from us,’ she said. ‘I jumped away and pulled back my sister and daughter.

'They had just enough time to get away. I saw parts flying... many dead on the ground. A girl under the truck who could not escape.’

At first, she feared that she had lost her unborn baby but was last night told by doctors that the child had survived.

A view of the site where the truck drove into Åhlens department store in Klarabergsgatan, left and right. The foam, seen right, is from a fire extinguisher used to dampen the flames

Blood was seen on the streets outside of the shopping centre where at least four people were killed and 15 more injured

Emergency services were seen tending to injured people and putting blankets over those who had been killed

The 'lightly injured' suspect was arrested in Marsta, a suburb north of Stockholm, after members of the public contacted police to say he was acting strangely. Pictured is a police block near to where the arrest took place

A Syrian woman, who gave her name only as Narin, sobbed as she told how she saw a woman whose legs had been cut off in the carnage.

She said: ‘I was terrified, I am still shaking. The truck went at high speed – it crushed everything in its path. In the beginning we thought it was an explosion because of the loud sounds.’

One unnamed witness told of how he saw the truck come speeding towards him. ‘He mowed down eight people there and I saw four bodies a little further away.

‘A woman with a small child became completely paralysed and just stood still. I grabbed her and another woman and threw us all into a stairwell.’

As the chaos unfurled, a plain clothes officer screamed at onlookers to leave the scene, warning that there could be a bomb inside the lorry.

John Backvid witnessed the aftermath of the attack and told how passers-by tried to help the injured before the emergency services arrived. He told BBC News: ‘Some people were on the ground doing CPR.

‘The first thing I felt was a bit of smoke in the air. I saw a gathering of people and the truck on fire – it was deep in the store and the store fire alarm was going.

‘It was chaotic. I could not see if anyone was driving it but it got out of control. I saw at least two being run over. I ran as fast as I could.’

Yosef Jawad said he saw an English-speaking woman collapsed on a zebra crossing and screaming: 'My legs, my legs.'

'Her feet hung loose and there was blood everywhere,' he said. 'I'm from the Middle East, you see very bad things on TV from Iraq, but this was terrible.'

Radio presenter Martin Svennigsen said he tried desperately to save those who had been crushed by the vehicle.

'There was blood everywhere. I saw two shattered bodies and tried to save a third, but could not. I leaned back and closed his eyes,' he told Swedish newspaper Expressen.

There was a heavy police presence in Stockholm this afternoon, and dozens of ambulances were on hand to help the injured

Paramedics were photographed dashing to the scene where four people died and at least 15 were injured

Heavily armed police patrolled the streets of Sweden after the horrific attacks on pedestrians in the city

This officer donned a gas mask as she attempted to calm people and evacuate them from the area where the attack took place

Emergency services cordoned off the roads around the department store. Bodies were covered in orange blankets

This terrifying security camera footage shows shoppers piling into a clothes store as the terrorist truck speeds past

The Swedish capital was put on lockdown with residents warned to stay inside as police launched a major manhunt to catch the killer

All trains in and out of the city were cancelled and motorists were told to stay away from the centre. The use of a lorry to mow down a crowd is more reminiscent of terror attacks in Nice and Berlin last year

Police hold a news conference to brief the press on the manhunt. Picture, from left is Anders Thornberg, Swedish Security Service, Dan Eliasson, National Police Commissioner and Mats Löfving, Deputy Director of the Swedish Police Authority

Jan Granroth was inside a shoe shop when he heard screams. He told Aftonbladet: 'We stood inside a shoe store and people started screaming. So I looked out of the store and I saw a huge truck slam into the wall opposite.'

Mr Granroth managed to escape after running through an emergency exit.

Another witness, called Dimitris, described the panic and saw 'at least' two people being run over.

ATTACK MIRRORS TERROR INCIDENT IN STOCKHOLM IN 2010 The incident in the Swedish capital this afternoon mirrored a terror attack in central Stockholm in December 2010. A fortnight before Christmas, a car blew up in a busy shopping area in Drottninggatan, followed moments later by a second explosion nearby. The suicide bomber who blew himself up was identified as Iraqi man Taimour-Al-Abdaly, 28, who graduated with a BSc in sports therapy at the University of Bedfordshire in 2004. He rigged an Audi car with explosives in the hope it would drive people to Drottninggatan, a busy shopping street about 200 yards away, where he was waiting to set off two more devices strapped to his chest and back. The car bomb never went off, and after setting fire to the Audi he was unable to detonate the other two explosives as planned. He made his way down a side street off Drottninggatan and, in an apparent attempt to fix the faulty trigger up his sleeve, set off the bomb on the front of his body, killing only himself. According to investigations by FBI, the bombing would likely have killed between 30 and 40 people had it succeeded. In March 2011, Strathclyde Police in Scotland arrested 30-year-old Nasserdine Menni in the Whiteinch area of Glasgow in connection with the Stockholm bombing. He was jailed for seven years in 2012 after being found guilty of supplying money. Advertisement

He said: 'I went to the main street when a big truck came out of nowhere. I could not see if anyone was driving it but it got out of control.

'I saw at least two being run over - I ran as fast as I could.'

A woman, called Anna, witnessed the incident and described seeing 'hundreds of people running for their lives'.

She said: 'I turned and ran after seeing hundreds of people running, they ran for their lives.'

Shocking video showed hundreds of terrified shoppers sprint for their lives after the truck rammed into pedestrians.

In other footage, shoppers pile into a clothes store as the terrorist truck speeds past.

Just moments after the suspected terrorist incident, armed police wearing gas masks arrived at the scene and shut off the busy road in the centre of the capital.

Glen Foran, an Australian tourist in his 40s, said: ‘I turned around and saw a big truck coming towards me. It swerved from side to side.

‘It didn’t look out of control, it was trying to hit people … it was terrible. It hit a pram with a kid in it, demolished it. It took a long time for police to get here … it felt like forever.’

Annevi Petersson, who was in the fitting room of the department store at the time of the attack, said: ‘There was a lady lying with a severed foot. There was blood everywhere.

'There were bodies on the ground everywhere, and a sense of panic, people standing by their loved ones, but also people running away.’

Maria Nathalie was on the top floor of the store when the fire alarm was triggered.

Speaking on the phone, she told NBC: 'People started running down the stairs when the fire alarm started.

'When we came down to the bottom of the building all we could see was a lot of smoke.'

As the centre of the city began to clear this afternoon, the blood stains could be seen as bodies covered in blankets were left on the road.

Paramedics desperately treated injured people near the lorry after they had been caught up in the attack.

Terrified eyewitness Veronica Durango, 42, miraculously escaped and was just one metre away from being struck by the vehicle.

She told Expressen: 'I could have died.'

The Swedish royal family has issued a statement in which they say they have learned with dismay of the events. 'We follow the developments and our thoughts are with the victims and their families.'

Stockholmers appeared to be following police advice to stay indoors and avoid crowded areas, with a number of normally-bustling city streets deserted.

Security was also beefed up across European cities in the wake of the attack.

In Norway, one of the few European countries where police are not routinely armed, officials announced that officers in major urban areas would now carry firearms. In a tweet, Norwegian Police said officers in its largest cities and at Oslo’s airport would be carrying weapons until further notice.

In Finland, police increased patrols in the capital Helsinki.

Last night, as world leaders sent messages of condolence, Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf said his ‘thoughts are going out to those that were affected, and to their families’.

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said that it 'looks like we have seen a despicable act of terrorism' which was aimed at 'harming innocent people'.

Speaking just weeks after the Westminster terror attack, Mr Khan said that 'we will never allow terrorists to succeed' after a truck ploughed into people in Stockholm.

He said: 'My thoughts and deepest sympathies are with the victims and the families who have been affected by the horrific attack in Stockholm today.

'The full details are still emerging, but once again it looks like we have seen a despicable act of terrorism aimed at harming innocent people and attacking our shared values of democracy, freedom, justice and tolerance.

'Londoners know how it feels to suffer from senseless and cowardly terrorism. And I know we share a steely determination with the people of Stockholm that we will never allow terrorists to succeed.

'We will never be cowed by terrorism, and today - London stands united with Stockholm and Londoners stand with the people of Stockholm.'

Tensions masked by idyllic lifestyle

With its bustling pavements and elegant shops, Stockholm has come to be seen as one of Europe’s most peaceful and developed cities.

For decades, the Swedish way of politics – based on fair wealth redistribution, a welfare state with generous benefits, a large public sector and a liberal immigration policy – has been put forward as a role model for other countries.

Pundits and politicians have described Sweden as ‘the safest place on Earth’ and it has barely suffered from terrorist attacks.

Indeed, the last incident of note came in 2010 when a failed suicide bomber blew himself up in central Stockholm.

But yesterday’s killings come two months after US President Donald Trump was ridiculed around the world for making reference to a non-existent terror attack in the country.

His outspoken remarks, in which he also said Sweden was ‘having problems like they never thought possible’, drew a wave of international criticism. But it prompted renewed debate over Sweden’s refugee policy, which has seen it described as ‘the most welcoming country in the world’. Some politicians say the country has struggled to deal with the huge numbers of migrants who have travelled there to enjoy the high quality of life.

The surge of immigration at the peak of Europe’s migration crisis in 2015 saw a record 163,000 asylum applications in just one year.

The influx, to a country with a population of 10million, prompted officials to put in place additional checks at the country’s borders.

Since 2012 around 300 people have travelled from Sweden to join violent Islamist groups – making the country one of the largest contributors to terrorist cells in Europe. They typically travel to Syria and Iraq but security services had felt they had stemmed the flow.

Yesterday’s attack will reawaken memories of Sweden’s first brush with Islamist extremism when another devastating incident was only narrowly avoided on the same street.

The botched 2010 plot was masterminded by a former British student who travelled to Drottninggatan as it was packed with Christmas shoppers.

Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, 28, who was partly radicalised while studying in Luton, had loaded his white Audi car with gas canisters, which could have killed dozens.

A remarkable stroke of luck, however, meant that the improvised weapons failed to detonate properly when the car went up in flames and only two people were injured.

The sole fatality was the perpetrator himself. He had fled the vehicle carrying pipe bombs, one of which exploded.

How vehicles became terrorists' favourite weapons Terrorists using cars and lorries to run down people like in Westminster, Nice, Berlin and now Stockholm 'is becoming the standard of an attack' security experts warned. Low tech attacks using stolen and hired vehicles to randomly rammed into crowds, were becoming increasing common by terrorists unable to get hold of guns and explosives. It is 'nigh on impossible' for security services to monitor and stop potential terrorists planning such murders and the only way to prevent them is by using barriers to protect pedestrians. Managing Director of Corporate Security Services Will Geddes said attacks of this kind will likely increase. He said: 'We have seen a marked increase since the attacks in Nice last year and there is every good chance it will become regular as it is a very easy platform to deliver an attack. 'It is incredibly difficult to stop these things. We have seen something today in Stockholm which is increasingly difficult to stop and we are going to see a drastic increase in the protection of pedestrianised areas. 'Whether they are going to be permanent or temporary, time will tell. It is very difficult to stop, nigh on impossible.' There have been five attacks using cars and trucks in the past nine months. London On 22 March, Khalid Masood, 52, drove a Hyundai 4x4 over Westminster Bridge, mowing down members of the public before crashing into a fence beside Big Ben. He then got out of the car and attacked PC Keith Palmer with a knife. Masood was shot twice by police and died when he was taken to hospital. Five people died in the attack, including PC Palmer. Antwerp The day after the Westminster attack, a man in Antwerp drove into a crowded shopping area in the Belgian city in an attempted attack, but no one was injured. Prosecutors today dropped terrorism charges against Mohamed R. as there was not enough evidence. He remains in custody on a weapons offence related to the incident. Jerusalem On January 8, a Palestinian lorry driver mowed down and then reversed over Israeli soldiers, killing four and wounding 15 people, in a shocking copycat of the Berlin and Nice terror massacres. Shocking video from the scene showed the driver reversing back over the soldiers, trapping ten under his wheels, during the sickening attack. Berlin A copycat ISIS-inspired massacre took place in Germany when a terrorist drove a truck through a Christmas market in Berlin. Twelve people were killed in the attack on December 19. Anis Amri stole a cargo truck and killed 12 people when he drove through a Christmas market next to the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church at Breitscheidplatz. Among the dozen people killed was the original driver of the truck Lukasz Urban who was found dead with a gunshot wound in the passenger street. Amri was a Tunisian who had failed to gain asylum status in the country. He was killed in Milan four days later after an international manhunt. Nice On Bastille Day in the summer of last year, 86 people were killed when a truck was driven through crowds enjoying fireworks in Nice. On the evening of July 14, 2016, a 19-tonne cargo truck was driven into crowds on the Promenage des Anglais. ISIS fanatic Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel was behind the wheel and after exchanging gunfire with police, the Tunisian migrant was shot dead. Thousands had gathered on the seafront to watch the fireworks that night. 86 of them died and 434 were injured. Advertisement

Armed police patrol outside the central station in Stockholm where people were evacuated from the station

Bystanders were seen comforting each other outside of the Central station, where gunmen were reported to have attacked commuters

Many people in central Stockholm were clearly in shock after the terror incident. Police sealed off the centre of the city and asked members of the public to leave