Swedish police have confirmed that 22-year-old Afghan to be the culprit of stabbing and injuring eight people in the city of Vetlanda on Wednesday. The man had arrived in a Nordic country in 2018 as per the police.
As per reports, Swedish police are currently working with the country’s intelligence service Sapo to determine the cause and motive of the attack. Police had initially called the incident “attempted murder” but later changed it to a “suspected terrorist” attack.
Police chief Malena Grann told reporters that “There are details in the investigation that have led us to investigate whether there was a terror motive”.
According to police, the man used a sharp knife but some sources say he had a brandished knife when the stabbings happened. The man whose identification was undisclosed was shot in the legs and is admitted to a hospital, media reported.
Three of the eight injured victims have reportedly suffered life-threatening injuries, while two others are in serious condition, local health authorities reported.
As of today, Swedish intelligence services have indicated that the “terrorist threat” was high in the country.
Sweden was also been targeted twice by such attacks, in April 2017, a radicalized Uzbek asylum seeker mowed down pedestrians with a stolen truck in which five people were killed and in December of 2010 a man carried a suicide attack, he himself was killed but passers-by were mildly injured in the incident.
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