A man arrested in Stockholm after Friday’s fatal lorry attack is believed to be the driver, Swedish police say.
The man, who was arrested in the north of the city, has not been named, but Swedish media say he is from Uzbekistan, BBC reported.
Four people were killed and 15 were injured when the lorry crashed into the front of a department store.
Police said they were unable to confirm local television reports of explosives being found inside the truck.
The lorry-hijacked from outside a nearby restaurant-crashed into the front of Ahlens department store in the middle of the afternoon on Drottninggatan (Queen Street), one of the city’s main pedestrian thoroughfares.
Eyewitnesses described horrifying scenes outside the store, as bodies and injured people lay on the ground.
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has called it a terrorist attack, with borders tightened at his request.
The suspect was detained on Friday evening after police released a grainy security camera image of a person of interest dressed in a hooded jacket. A second arrest was reportedly made later.
“We have investigated several people this evening, who we found interesting in one way or another, and recently we arrested someone we are very interested in,” said police investigator Jan Evensson.
Police Spokesman Lars Bystrom has since told news agencies, “We suspect that the man who was arrested is the perpetrator.”
He is being held on suspicion of committing a terrorist crime, the state prosecutor’s office said, and is in prolonged detention, according to a police website.
Central Stockholm was in lockdown after the incident, with the main station evacuated and metro, central roads and various bus lines shut as well.
