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A vehicle crashed into people in Drottninggatan in the Swedish capital and at least four have died, according to authorities.

Police said it drove into department store Ahlens Mall around 3.40pm local time and there are reports of numerous others being injured.

Emergency services said a total of 15 people, including children, were being treated for their injuries.

Two men have been arrested after the attack, one on the strongest degree of suspicion of committing a terror crime.

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said everything indicates that it is a "terror attack".

The King of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf, has now cancelled his state visit to Brazil and wil return home.

Two men were seen being detained by police after the attack, and officers have now confirmed two people are being interviewed.

A man has also been arrested and has taken responsibility for the slaughter, a source told Sweden's Aftonbladet newspaper.

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Stockholm Central Station was closed and there were also reports of a shooting elsewhere in Sweden's capital.

A manhunt has been launched as well to find a "person of interest".

Police later confirmed it was a "deliberate attack" but have yet to say for sure whether it is an act of terrorism.

Shocking images show a truck, on fire, lodged in the side of the store.

Horrific footage also shows people running away from the attack.

And bodies litter the street in another video.

There were also reports of shots being fired.

"A vehicle has injured people on Drottningatan," police spokeswoman Towe Hagg.

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The whole subway network has been closed in the city.

And the Parliament was locked down.

A Brit tourist on holiday in Stockholm has described seeing "lifeless bodies" covered with towels at the scene of the suspected terror attack.

Harriet Rose-Gale, 26, was eating lunch metres away from the spot where a truck ploughed into pedestrians in the Swedish capital.

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Harriet, of Marlborough, Wilts., said: "We were literally 100 or 200m away having lunch when a couple of police cars went by followed by about 20-30 emergency vehicles continuously.

"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."

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Helena Reynis told Mirror Online she saw that truck pass her at "high speed".

She added: "I was in Zara at Drottninggatan with my friend Birna Hrönn Gunnlaugsdóttir, we are about to walk out the store and then we hear people scream and run against us into the store and then we see the truck passing us in such high speed.

“We run back into the store to the back and everyone is screaming. Everyone just got stiff but still trying to find a way out the back. Then we hear some noise again and then people start screaming again and panicking even more.

“Everyone starts running out through the backenterance of Zara to Hötorget. People are running into everyone so my purse string even broke from all the chaos."

Annevi Peterson described people lying dead and injured in the street with blood everywhere.

"I heard the noise, I heard the screams, I saw the people," she told BBC News.

"There was, just outside the store, there was a dead dog, the owner screaming, there was a lady lying with a severed foot.

"There was blood everywhere, there were bodies on the ground everywhere.

"There was a sense of panic, people standing by their loved ones but also people running away."

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Jan Granroth was in a shoe shop in Queen Street when he heard screams.

He said: "We stood inside a shoe store, and we heard no noise, and so people start screaming. So I look out at the store, so I see a huge truck slam into the wall opposite."

The alcohol company which owns the truck claims it was stolen earlier today.

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Another witness describes the panic when the truck came out of nowhere.

They 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 from there."

This comes as a car slammed into people on Westminster Bridge in London last month.

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Police in Norway's largest cities and at Oslo's airport will be carrying weapons until further notice following the Stockholm attack, Norwegian police said in a tweet.

Police officers in Norway, which borders Sweden, do not usually carry guns.

In Finland, police increased patrols in the capital Helsinki.

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The Stockholm attack is close to the scene of a terror attack in 2010 when Taimour Abdulwahab, a Swedish citizen who lived in Luton, blew himself up.

The terrorist, who police concluded acted alone, died on December 11, 2010 in the Bryggargatan area. No-one else was killed.

Abdulwahab rigged an Audi car with explosives in the hope that the blast would drive people to Drottninggatan, a busy shopping street, where he was waiting to set off two more devices strapped to his chest and back.

But after setting fire to the Audi, he was unable to detonate the other two explosives as planned and only killed himself.

ISIS claimed responsibility for an attack in Nice, France, last July, when a truck killed 86 people celebrating Bastille Day.

And another in Berlin in December, when a truck smashed through a Christmas market, killing 12 people.