A Belgian psychologist who worked with asylum seekers facing deportation was among the victims of the Stockholm truck attack, it emerged on Monday.

Maïlys Dereymaeker, 31, was named by Belgian newspaper Nieuwsblad as one of the four people who were killed after failed asylum seeker Rakhmat Akilov ploughed a truck into a crowd in central Stockholm.

Ms Dereymaeker, who was the mother of an 18-month old child, used to work as a psychologist in several Belgian immigration detention centres, Nieuwsblad reported.

In a bitter twist of irony, the newspaper said she often worked with failed asylum seekers. Akilov, a 39-year-old from Uzbekistan, had his asylum claim in Sweden rejected last year.

The Swedish authorities have been strongly criticised for failing to carry out his deportation order, and the government has said it is reconsidering its policy.