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At least five people are dead and many more injured after a terror attack which saw a hijacked lorry plough into pedestrians in Stockholm.

One person has been arrested following the incident on Friday which left people injured, Swedish police say.

Three people have been killed, Swedish radio reports.

According to Aftonbladet, a truck crashed into the Åhléns department store on Drottningsgatan in central Stockholm.

Several witnesses told local media outlets "lifeless bodies" were on the street.

​According to police, the incident took place at 2.53pm local time on Friday.

Speaking to Swedish news site aftonbladet, eyewitness Jan Granroth said: "We stood inside a shoe store, and we heard no noise, and so people start screaming.

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"So I look out at the store, so I see a huge truck slams into the wall opposite."

Police said a number of people had been hurt in the incident, which comes after trucks were used in terror attacks in Nice and Berlin last year.

Newspaper Aftonbladet quoted a witness saying they saw hundreds of people running for their lives near the Ahlens mall

Another witness told the newspaper that the out-of-control truck ran over at least two people.

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has said everything indicates that the Stockholm truck crash is "a terror attack".

Blood stains were visible on the streets along with bodies covered in blankets in the aftermath of the incident.

Paramedics could also be seen tending to the injured near the lorry, which was embedded in the corner of a shopping mall with its cab burning.

Vu Ly, a 24-year-old student living in Stockholm, witnessed the incident.

He said "it was very intense", and "people were going crazy".

The student, originally from Vietnam, compared the scene to last month's attack in Westminster, adding: "I've never witnessed anything like that with my naked eyes, it was terrible."

The incident comes hours after a Romanian tourist who was knocked into the River Thames during the Westminster terror attack died.

Andreea Cristea, 31, was struck as Muslim convert Khalid Masood ploughed through pedestrians on Westminster Bridge on March 22.

She had been visiting London with her boyfriend, Andrei Burnaz, who was due to propose to her later on the day of the attack.

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Scotland Yard said Ms Cristea was receiving treatment in hospital but life support was withdrawn on Thursday afternoon.

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Her death brings the number of innocent victims of the attack to five.

After being rushed to hospital for treatment, Ms Cristea was diagnosed with a blood clot on the brain and underwent surgery.

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Kurt Cochran, 54, Leslie Rhodes, 75, and Aysha Frade, 44, also died after being struck on the bridge.

Pc Keith Palmer, 48, died from a single stab wound to the chest outside the Houses of Parliament before Masood was shot dead by armed police.