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Sweden’s Eagle News Service correspondent, Pauline Bautista, a Filipina, recalls the horror and shock of witnessing first hand the tragic truck attack in the country’s capital of Stockholm. Bautista recalled how the bus she was riding in stopped just in the nick of time, a few seconds before the “terror truck” passed through and rammed the crowd on the busy street. The people were crying, shouting, running. Some were frantically calling the police or […]
https://youtu.be/0TOcXF-7biA People flock to the tragic scene of the April 7 terror truck attack in the heart of Stockholm, capital of Sweden, where four people were killed and 15 were injured. With flowers and prayers, the mourners wrote their messages of love and peace on colorful sticky notes that they placed on a wall of Ahlens department store at the corner of the Drottninggatan pedestrian street, where a stolen beer truck mowed […]
by Guy JACKSON Agence France Presse VIMY, France (AFP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his country “was born here” as he led commemorations in France on Sunday for the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. The battle, which started on April 9, 1917, was one of the defining moments of World War I and a founding moment in Canada’s history as Canadian troops fought under Canadian command for the first time. […]
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) — Two Swedes, one Briton and a Belgian were killed in the Stockholm truck attack that also left 15 people injured, Swedish police said Sunday. “We have confirmed the identities of the dead, and their families have been informed,” Stockholm police official Jan Evensson told reporters.
JERUSALEM (AFP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel remained committed to treating war wounded from Syria and reaffirmed his support for last week’s United States air strike in the neighboring country. In comments at the start of a cabinet meeting, Netanyahu did not specify whether those injured in last week’s suspected chemical attack in Syria would be among those treated in Israel. Israeli media reported that a proposal to do so had […]
by Camille Bas-Wohlert STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) — Thousands of people were to gather in central Stockholm on Sunday for a “Lovefest” gathering against terrorism, as police pursue their investigation into this week’s deadly truck attack. Shocked by Friday’s attack that left four dead and 15 injured — for which a 39-year-old Uzbek man is in custody — Stockholmers mobilized on Facebook, organizing the gathering for 2:00 pm (1200 GMT) at the Sergels Torg plaza near […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russia slammed London on Sunday after British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson cancelled a scheduled visit to Moscow over its support for the Syrian regime, claiming Britain has “no real influence” internationally. The cancellation “once again confirms doubts about the added value of dialogue with the British, who don’t have their own position on the majority of current issues,” the foreign ministry said in a statement. The British have “no real influence […]
By Pia Ohlin STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) — Swedish police found a suspect device in the truck that ploughed into a Stockholm crowd killing four in Europe’s latest such terror attack, officials said Saturday. The alleged driver, who is in custody, is a 39-year-old man from Uzbekistan who was already known to Swedish police, authorities said. “We have found a device in the vehicle that doesn’t belong there … A technical examination is ongoing, we can’t […]
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) — Four people were killed and at least 15 injured when a stolen truck slammed into a crowd of people outside a busy department store in central Stockholm, in what the prime minister described as a “terror attack.” Here is what we know about the truck attack in Sweden’s capital: What happened? The incident occurred just before 1300 GMT on Friday at the corner of the Ahlens department store and Drottninggatan, […]
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) — Sweden early Saturday arrested a man for a “terrorist crime,” prosecutors said, hours after a beer truck ploughed into a crowd outside a busy department store in central Stockholm, killing four. The man was arrested “on suspicion of a terrorist crime through murder,” Karin Rosander, a communications director at the Swedish Prosecution Authority, told AFP. Police said earlier on Friday after the attack that they had detained the man who “matched […]
by Camille Bas-Wohlert and Ilgin Karlidag Agence France Presse STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) — Stockholm’s usually vibrant city centre was eerily silent on Friday evening with restaurants, bars and cinemas shuttered and streets emptied hours after a truck ploughed into a crowd outside a department store, killing four people and injuring 15. Stockholmers appeared to be following police advice to stay indoors and avoid crowded areas, with a number of normally-bustling city streets deserted. The […]
By Pia Ohlin STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) — A truck slammed into a crowd of people outside a busy department store in central Stockholm on Friday, causing “deaths” in what the prime minister described as an “terror attack.” “There are deaths, and many injured,” Nina Odermalm Schei, a spokesperson for Swedish intelligence agency Sapo, told AFP, without giving a precise figure. “Sweden has been attacked. Everything points to a terror attack,” said Prime Minister Stefan Lofven. […]
