Eleven-year-old girl killed in Stockholm ‘walking home from school’ when attack happened
AN 11-YEAR-OLD girl was one of four people brutally murdered on Friday after a suspected jihadi terrorist ploughed a beer delivery truck into a crowded shopping street in Stockholm.
Crowds flee after truck crashes into pedestrians in Sweden
The girl was on her way home from school when the murderer deliberately drove the hijacked truck into a crowd of people before crashing into a department store.
Relatives of the youngster confirmed to local media she had been killed in the attack.
She was walking to meet her mother at a subway station and had spoken on the phone moments before the attack happened, according to reports.
Police confirmed the girl had died after her family launched a desperate appeal on social media to find her following the incident.
The family checked hospitals and frantically scoured central Stockholm in search of her, according to reports.
The attack killed four people and left at least 15 more injured
Two people were arrested
Police delivered the devastating news Saturday afternoon after using a DNA sample to confirm her identity.
A relative said: “It was very sad that it took so long.”
Ten survivors, including one child, are still being treated in hospital for their injuries.
The 39-year-old detained by police is believed to have driven the truck
Police announced yesterday that the 39-year-old Uzbek man they detained on Friday is the suspected driver of the truck.
He was already known to Swedish intelligence services as a marginal figure with no clear links to extremist groups.
Dan Eliasson, head of Sweden’s national police, said: “Nothing indicates that we have the wrong person, on the contrary, suspicions have strengthened as the investigation has progressed."