Swedish police said Saturday that a man arrested on
« We suspect that the man who was arrested is the perpetrator, » Stockholm police spokesman Lars Bystrom told AFP.
The attack on Friday killed four people and injured 15, nine of them seriously.
Police had earlier said they had detained a man who « matched the description » of a photo released of a suspect wearing a dark hoodie and military green jacket.
Bystrom said the arrested man « could be the same person in the picture ».
According to the newspaper Aftonbladet, the individual in the photo is a 39-year-old man of Uzbek origin and a supporter of the Islamic State (IS) group.
If confirmed as a terror attack, it would be Sweden’s first such deadly assault.
The attack occurred just before 3:00 pm (1300 GMT) when a stolen beer truck slammed into the corner of the bustling Ahlens store and the popular pedestrian street Drottninggatan.
Friday’s attack was the latest in a string of similar assaults with vehicles in Europe, including in London, Berlin and the southern French city of Nice.
