Flags fly at half-mast in the Swedish capital

Record ID: 566517

  • Title: Flags fly at half-mast in the Swedish capital
  • Date: 8th April 2017
  • Summary: STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN (APRIL 8, 2017) (REUTERS) FLAGS AT HALF MAST IN FRONT OF FOREIGN MINISTRY BUILDING FLAG BEING RAISED AT HALF MAST ON FOREIGN MINISTRY TWO MUNICIPAL WORKERS RAISING FLAG THREE FLAGS AT HALF MAST ROYAL PALACE FLAG AT HALF MAST ON TOP OF ROYAL PALACE VARIOUS FLAGS AT HALF MAST VARIOUS POLICE AT SITE OF ATTACK POLICE VAN POLICE AT SCENE VARIOUS SITE OF ATTACK
  • Embargoed: 22nd April 2017 07:56
  • Keywords: Sweden attack Stockholm flags police
  • Location: STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
  • City: STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
  • Country: Sweden
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,International/National Security
  • Reuters ID: LVA0016BJDJRB
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Flags were flying at half mast on Saturday (April 8) morning in the Swedish capital after a truck ploughed into a crowd on a shopping street and crashed into a department store in central Stockholm on Friday (April 7), killing four people and wounding 15 in what the prime minister said appeared to be a terrorist attack.
    Police said they had detained one person in a northern Stockholm suburb after earlier circulating a picture of a man wearing a grey hoodie in connection with the investigation into the attack on Drottninggatan (Queen Street) using a hijacked beer truck.
    Prosecutors ordered the man arrested on suspicion of terror crime through the act of murder. He was arrested on the highest level of suspicion in the Swedish legal system.
    Swedish public service radio, citing a source at an unidentified German authority, reported that the suspect in custody was Uzbek. A police spokesperson declined to comment on the information.
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