Truck driven into shoppers in Stockholm

A number of people have been injured after a truck was driven into crowds in Stockholm, police and eyewitnesses said.

The incident was in Drottninggatan, in a shopping district in the centre of the Swedish capital.

Police said a number of people had been hurt in the incident, which comes after trucks were used in terror attacks in Nice and Berlin last year.

Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet quoted a witness saying they saw hundreds of people running for their lives near the Ahlens mall.

Another witness told the newspaper that the out-of-control truck ran over at least two people.

At least three people have been killed in the Stockholm truck crash and shots have been fired, Swedish radio reported.

Pools of blood were visible on the street along with bodies covered in blankets.

Paramedics could also be seen tending to the injured near the truck.

Jan Granroth told Aftonbladet: “We stood inside a shoe store and heard something … and then people started to scream.

“I looked out of the store and saw a big truck.”

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has said everything indicates that the Stockholm truck crash is “a terror attack”. Mr Lofven has also stated that one person has been arrested.

Office worker JP Hanson described the scene as mayhem and said his building hasbeen put into lockdown.

“Right now, inside here we have maybe 40 people,” he told BBC News.

“The mood is quite positive, obviously people are afraid – but I would say it’s a strong mood.”

Annevi Peterson described people lying dead and injured in the street wit hblood everywhere.

“I heard the noise, I heard the screams, I saw the people,” she told BBC News.

“There was, just outside the store, there was a dead dog, the owner screaming, there was a lady lying with a severed foot.

“There was blood everywhere, there were bodies on the ground everywhere.

“There was a sense of panic, people standing by their loved ones but also people running away.”