| 2017 Stockholm truck attack | |
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| Part of Islamic terrorism in Europe | |
 The truck used in the attack (right) being removed from the scene | |
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| Location | Drottninggatan, Stockholm |
| Coordinates | 59°19′58″N 018°03′44″E / 59.33278°N 18.06222°E |
| Date | 7 April 2017 c. 14:53 CEST (UTC+2) |
| Target | Civilian pedestrians |
Attack type | Vehicle-ramming attack, mass murder |
| Weapons | Hijacked Mercedes-Benz Actros[3] |
| Deaths | 5[4] |
| Injured | 15 serious[5] |
| Perpetrator | Rakhmat Akilov |
| Motive | Islamic terrorism Protest against Swedish government military training in Iraq |
On 7 April 2017, a vehicle-ramming Islamist terrorist attack took place in central Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. A hijacked truck was deliberately driven into crowds along Drottninggatan (Queen Street) before being crashed into an Åhléns department store. Five people, the youngest an 11-year-old girl, were killed. 14 others were seriously injured.
The perpetrator was Rakhmat Akilov, a 39-year-old rejected asylum seeker and a citizen of Uzbekistan, who was apprehended several hours later. He had sworn allegiance to the Islamic State in a self-recorded video the day before the attack,[6] and Uzbek authorities alleged that he had joined the group.[7] Akilov was convicted of murder and terrorist crimes, and sentenced to life in prison and, if released, deportation to Uzbekistan and lifetime expulsion from Sweden.[8]
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- ^ "570 meter av ren skräck" [570 meters of pure horror] (in Swedish). Dagens Nyheter. 8 April 2017. Archived from the original on 9 April 2017. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
- ^ Andersson, Aron (10 April 2017). "Det här är lastbilsmodellen som användes i attacken – nu efterfrågas bättre säkerhet". Metro.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 6 September 2018.
- ^ "Woman injured in Stockholm attack dies in hospital". Sveriges Radio. 28 April 2017. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
- ^ Ekéus, Carolina. "Över tusen förhör i terrorutredning". Polisen.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 23 June 2017.
- ^ "Punkt för punkt – det här visar stämningsansökan mot Akilov". DN.SE (in Swedish). 30 January 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
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