7 April 2017; 7 years ago (2017-04-07) 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
14 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]
^"Gärningsmannens iskalla manöver med lastbilen vid attacken". Expressen (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 16 May 2017. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
^"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.
^Cite error: The named reference Reuters-14April was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Jones, Evelyn (7 June 2018). "Stockholm terrorist Rakhmat Akilov sentenced to life in prison". Dagens Nyheter. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
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