Hundreds of people were seen fleeing from the scene

Four people have died and 15 are injured after a truck was driven into crowds in central Stockholm.

The incident unfolded in Drottninggatan, a shopping district in the centre of the Swedish capital.

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

Swedish emergency services have confirmed that four people have died and 15 are injured.


There was also unconfirmed reports of gunshots at the scene.

A truck has been driven into people in central Stockholm, police and eyewitnesses said

Victims are helped after a truck crashed into an Ahlens department store in Stockholm (Picture: Rex/Shutterstock)

Police say a number of people had been hurt in the incident, which comes after vehicles were used in terror attacks in Nice and Berlin last year and in London just two weeks ago.

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The vehicle crashed into a busy department store in central Stockholm, with dramatic pictures from the scene showing fire and smoke billowing out of the cab of the truck.



People nearby were seen fleeing for their lives as the vehicle careered towards them.

Swedish police are urging people to avoid central Stockholm around the downtown Sergels Torg square, and Swedish news agency TT says subway traffic has been shut down in the area.

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Victims receive treatment on the roadside (Picture: Rex)

And officers have ordered the evacuation of the central train station in Stockholm.

Sweden’s Intelligence Agency says on its web page that there is ‘a large number of injured’ in the truck crash.

Several people have been rushed away in ambulances according to Swedish news agency TT.

Pools of blood were visible on the street along with bodies covered in blankets.

A medic is seen calmly walking through the scene (Picture: Rex)

Pools of blood and casualties are visible on the street (Picture: Rex)

Body bags are seen lining the street (Picture: Rex)

Paramedics could also be seen tending to the injured near the truck.

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Eyewitness Jan Granroth told Aftonbladet: ‘We stood inside a shoe store and heard something… and then people started to scream.’

‘I looked out of the store and saw a big truck.’

Video taken in the aftermath of the attack shows crowds of people fleeing from the vehicle.

While pictures on social media showed the lorry had crashed into the corner of Mall with its cab ablaze.

A dog was also killed in the attack (Picture: Rex)

Emergency services work at the scene where a truck crashed into the Ahlens department store at Drottninggatan in central Stockholm (Picture: Getty)

At least three people have been killed in the attack

An eyewitness, who works on the sixth floor of an office building 100 metres from Ahlens, filmed people running from the scene.

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Photographer Annevi Petersson was in one of the stores on Drottninggatan when she heard screaming coming from outside as the truck went passed.

She said: ‘I was in a store at Drootninggatan where the truck passed by. Had just stepped into a fitting room, heard the noise and the screams, ran out and people laying on the street.

‘I saw a woman had a partly severed foot. People screaming in panic, others ran. I saw people laying bloody on the street and got out of there.’

An office work in Kungsgatan, Stockholm says at least two bodies can be spotted in the street following today’s suspected terror attack.

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The office worker, who asked not to be named, said: “I can see at least two bodies covered up outside my office window. I didn’t see the incident or the truck.

‘We are still stuck in the office and no one is leaving. Just heard that there is shooting going on at Fridhemsplan.’

Mikael Anttila, a 49-year-old portfolio manager at bank SEB, said saw several hundred people gathered on the street close to the shop, before they all started running ‘suddenly … like ants’.



‘Then a lot of police started coming.’

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In London on March 22 this year, a man in a car ploughed into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge, killing four, and then stabbed a policeman to death before being shot by police.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for both an attack in Nice, France, last July, when a truck killed 86 people celebrating Bastille Day, and one in Berlin in December, when a truck smashed through a Christmas market, killing 12 people.

Alion statue that appears to have been dislodged by a truck close to the scene of an incident in Drottninggatan (Picture: PA/Twitter)

European Union officials have expressed their condolences to the families of victims of the truck crash at a Stockholm department store and praised the courage of first responders.

EU Council President Donald Tusk said in a tweet Friday that ‘my heart is in Stockholm this afternoon. My thoughts are with the victims and their families and friends of today’s terrible attack’.

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said that ‘one of Europe’s most vibrant and colorful cities appears to have been struck by those wishing it – and our very way of life – harm.’

Juncker said ‘an attack on any of our (EU) member states is an attack on us all’ and that Sweden can count on EU help.