(MENAFN- Gulf Times) DPA/Stockholm
Swedish police said on Sunday that they have conducted raidsin the greater Stockholm area as part of an investigation into a truck attack that killed four people earlier this week.
Police spokeswoman Eva Nilsson confirmed a police raid in Sollentuna, a suburb north of Stockholm, but declined to give further details.
"There is only one person under arrest," she said, referring to a39-year-old Uzbek national detained lateFriday, just hours after the attack, in which is is suspected of having driven the vehicle.
Policealso raided an apartmentin the southern suburb of Varberglate Saturday and reportedly seized items including what appeared tobe laptop bags.
The Aftonbladet daily reported that the 39-year-old suspect hadvisited the apartment that was subject to the raid a few hours beforethe attack and had connected to a wireless internet network.
Seven people were being questioned in relation to the attack, JonasHysing of the national police told Swedish broadcaster SVT.
Three of the four victims in the attackhave been identified andtheir next of kin notifed, Hysing told broadcaster SVT. Ten peopleinjured in the truck attack were stillin hospital. Four weredescribed as seriously injured.
Theremaining cordons on thecentral pedestrian street Drottninggatanwhere the attack took place have been lifted.
Later on Sunday, a public gathering was to be held at the central SegelsTorg square, adjacent to the Ahlens department store, where the truckcrashed.
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