AN 11-YEAR-OLD girl mowed down and killed as she walked home from school has been named as the latest victim of the Stockholm terror attack.

Ebba Åkerlund was one of four innocent people caught up in the rampage in the Swedish capital on Friday.

Ebba Åkerlund, 11, was walking home from school when she was caught up in the terror attack in Stockholm on Friday Credit: Sourced

Ebba Åkerlund was mown down and killed by Rakhmat Akilov in the horrific rampage Credit: Sourced

Police cordon off the truck after it crashed into the Ahlens department store at Drottninggatan in central Stockholm on Friday Credit: Getty Images

Her family, who launched a desperate social media appeal in the wake of the attack, have thanked people for their "warmth" as they confirmed the schoolgirl was one of the victims.

Ebba had been due to meet her mum at the subway after school but never arrived and her parents frantically searched for her in the aftermath of the horror.

It is understood they discovered on Saturday that their daughter had been killed and today released a statement confirming the tragedy, according to TV4.

It read: "With all our heart we thank the Swedish people for all the warmth and love you have given us in a time of despair and pain.

"We now need peace and quiet to process our grief and ask for your understanding that we need to do it in peace."

Chris Bevington has been confirmed as the Brit killed in the Sweden massacre

The truck, taken from the scene overnight, was seen charred after crashing into the department store Credit: AP:Associated Press

Four people are believed to have been killed in the attack with reports of many more wounded Credit: Rex Features

British man Chris Bevington, who had been living in Stockholm for 10 years and working as the director of global strategic partnerships for Spotify, was also killed in the attack.

The other victims were named as Lena Wahlberg, 69, from Sweden, and Maïlys Dereymaeker, 31, from Belgium.

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Rakhmat Akilov, 39, was named by local media as the man arrested by Swedish police in the wake of the fatal attack.

Swedish police confirmed the suspected terrorist is an Uzbekistan man who was an asylum seeker who had his application rejected in June last year.

Akilov, who was wanted for deportation by Swedish immigration officials, had managed to avoid authorities by giving them the wrong address.

Swedish police said that the man was known to have had extremist sympathies and reportedly shared ISIS propaganda videos on social media.

Police official Jonas Hysing told a news conference: "We know that he showed sympathies for extremist organisations, among them IS."

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