An attacker injured several people yesterday in an alleged terrorist act in a small town in Sweden. He was then shot, arrested and taken to the hospital by the police.
Eight people were attacked and injured, said the local police chief Jonas Lindell in the evening. They would also be treated in the hospital. How many of them were seriously injured, he couldn’t say.
It will now be determined whether there is a possible terrorist motive, said the police chief of the Jönköping region, Malena Grann. This was indicated by certain details, which she could not, however, specify. They work closely with the Swedish security police, Säpo. There are no signs of further perpetrators. The investigators did not want to comment on the nationality of the attacker.
Many questions remained unanswered in the evening, including the motive and the exact course of trade in Vetlanda around 270 kilometers southwest of Stockholm. According to previous police knowledge, the man – allegedly a lone perpetrator between the ages of 20 and 30 and from the area – attacked a number of people at a total of five different crime scenes with a type of stabbing weapon. The police have not yet disclosed what kind of weapon it was.
