Swedish man with a knife “indiscriminate hacking” attack on eight people caught

Swedish police said eight people were injured in a terrorist knife attack in Sweden on March 3; two of them were in serious condition. When police arrived at the scene of the terrorist attack, they returned fire, wounding the gunman in the leg. The identity of the perpetrator, who was about 20 years old, was not disclosed.

The stabbing occurred in the southern city of Vetlanda kommun. Initially, the police most excepted the possibility of terrorists, but eventually in the evening indicated their suspicion of a “terrorist crime.

These are terrible events, and my thoughts are with the victims and their loved ones,” said Swedish Interior Minister Mikael Damberg. At this point, it is not clear what happened and what the motive was.”

Intelligence services consider the threat of terrorism in Sweden to be high. The country has been hit by two terrorist attacks in recent years.The 2017 Stockholm attack was a terrorist attack that took place on April 7, 2017, at 1453 hours. A Muslim man driving a hijacked truck carrying beer stormed Queen Street in the Swedish capital Stockholm and crashed into a shopping center in the city center. The attack left five people dead and many others injured.

Bombdåden i Stockholm 2010 was a twin bomb attack that killed one person and injured two others in central Stockholm, Sweden, on the evening of December 11, 2010, local Time. Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt and Swedish police said on December 12 that the bombings were a terrorist attack.