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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 564

2017 Stockholm truck-ramming attack

Emergency services at the scene of an attack on Drottninggatan street in central Stockholm, April 7, 2017. (Fredrik Sandberg/TT via AP, File)
June 7, 2018, 9:41 pm
Radicalized Sweden truck attacker convicted of murder, gets life term
Rakmat Akilov swore allegiance to the Islamic State group before carrying out attack in which he killed five people and injured 14 others
By AP
An artist's impression made and released on April 11, 2017, shows Uzbek national Rakhmat Akilov (C) together with his defense counsel during his remand hearing in the Stockholm District Court. (AFP Photo/TT News Agency/Johan Hallnas)
February 13, 2018, 12:50 pm
Stockholm truck attacker pleads guilty as terrorism trial opens
Rakhmat Akilov mowed down pedestrians last April, killing 5 and injuring 10; prosecution has demanded a life sentence
By Agencies
An artist's impression made and released on April 11, 2017, shows Uzbek national Rakhmat Akilov (C) together with his defense counsel during his remand hearing in the Stockholm District Court. (AFP Photo/TT News Agency/Johan Hallnas)
January 30, 2018, 12:32 pm
Swedes charge Uzbek man with terrorism in truck attack
Rakhmat Akilov has confessed to April ramming that killed 5 and wounded 14, which authorities say was inspired by Islamic State
By AP
Pedestrians walk past newly-installed concrete security bollards near the Lindt Cafe on July 17, 2017, scene of the 2014 Sydney cafe seige, in which two hostages and the gunman were killed. (AFP/WILLIAM WEST)
August 20, 2017, 2:18 pm
Australia releases ‘how-to guide’ to protect from vehicle attacks
Following global spate of car-rammings, new government report gives venue operators a ‘toolkit’ to address terrorism concerns
By AFP
Armed police on St. Thomas Street, London, on June 4, 2017, near the scene of a terror attack on London Bridge and at the capital's Borough Market. (Dominic Lipinski/PA via AP)
June 5, 2017, 9:33 am
Jihadist-linked terror attacks in Europe since 2015
London attack latest in wave of recent IS assaults across continent, including against Jewish targets
By AFP
Illustrative: Police patrol near the scene of a terror attack in central Stockholm, Sweden, April 8, 2017. (Anders Wiklund/TT via AP)
April 24, 2017, 5:14 pm
Sweden arrests second suspect over Stockholm attack
Police decline to detail detainee’s connection to truck-ramming by Uzbek national that killed 4 people
By AFP
Policemen secure the entrance to the Stockholm District Court where Uzbek national Rakhmat Akilov, prime suspect in the Stockholm truck attack, appeared in court on April 11, 2017. (AFP Photo/TT News Agency/Fredrik Sandberg)
April 12, 2017, 6:38 pm
Stockholm attack suspect tried to join IS in Syria – reports
Rakhmat Akilov reportedly influenced by fellow Central Asians, received order from terror group to carry out truck-ramming
By AFP
People react during a minute of silence to commemorate the victims of Friday's terror attack at a makeshift memorial near the site where a truck drove into Ahlens department store in Stockholm, Sweden, on April 10, 2017. ( AFP PHOTO / Jonathan NACKSTRAND)
April 11, 2017, 12:18 pm
Stockholm attack suspect ‘confesses to terrorist crime’
39-year-old Uzbek national, who killed four in truck attack, pleads guilty in court, rest of hearing held behind closed doors
By AFP
A girl lights candles in front of the department store Ahlens in Stockholm, Sweden, Sunday, April 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
April 10, 2017, 7:52 am
Swedes saddened by terror suspect’s status as failed asylum-seeker
PM Stefan Lofven says he is ‘frustrated’ as fellow Swedes ponder their open-door policies
By MATTI HUUHTANEN and JAN M. OLSEN
Swedish police released a photo taken from surveillance footage of the main suspect in a truck ramming attack in Stockholm on April 7, 2017 that killed at least three people. (Swedish police)
April 10, 2017, 4:33 am
Stockholm suspect an ‘IS sympathizer’ who ‘partied and drank’
Uzbek construction worker who killed 4 in truck-ramming not ‘particularly religious,’ colleagues say
By AFP
Two days after a man drove a truck into crowds, people gather at a makeshift memorial near the point where the vehicle crashed into a department store, in Stockholm, Sweden, April 9, 2017. (AFP/Jonathan NACKSTRAND)
April 9, 2017, 2:55 pm
Stockholm truck attacker was a rejected asylum-seeker
Suspect was interested in Islamic State group; police identify victims as two Swedes, one Briton and a Belgian
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Swedish Social democrat politician Anders Ygeman lays flowers at a makeshift memorial near the site where a truck slammed into a crowd yesterday outside a busy department store, in central Stockholm, on April 8, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Jonathan NACKSTRAND)
April 8, 2017, 4:04 pm
Sweden identifies truck terror attack suspect as Uzbek native, 39
PM urges citizens to ‘get through this,’ police say possible bomb found in same truck that killed four
By MATTI HUUHTANEN
Damage to a store is revealed after the stolen truck, which was driven through a crowd outside a department in Stockholm on April 7, 2017, was taken away on April 8. (AFP Photo/Odd Andersen)
April 8, 2017, 9:58 am
Arrested suspect is likely driver in truck attack, say Swedish police
Man detained over fatal ramming in Stockholm said to be a 39-year-old IS supporter of Uzbek origin
By AFP
Forensics Police officers work at the scene where a truck slammed into a crowd of people outside a busy department store in central Stockholm, causing "deaths" in what the prime minister described as a 'terror attack' on April 7, 2017. (AFP/ Jonathan NACKSTRAND)
April 7, 2017, 11:08 pm
Death toll in Stockholm attack climbs to 4; police make arrest
At least 15 injured as driver ploughs truck into crowd in Swedish capital; authorities have one person in detention
By Pia OHLIN
Swedish police released a photo taken from surveillance footage of the main suspect in a truck ramming attack in Stockholm on April 7, 2017 that killed at least three people. (Swedish police)
April 7, 2017, 8:07 pm
Swedish police hunt for driver in capital’s truck-ramming attack
Authorities release photo of main suspect, captured on surveillance footage near terror attack in which at least 3 killed
By ToI Staff and Agencies
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