Witness recounts terrifying moment of 'crazy car' incident in Sweden

A truck swerved, trying to hit a crowd in the Swedish capital. Witnesses described the terrifying moments. The tires were covered in blood.

Swedish police have said security has been tightened at the country's borders. They do not rule out the possibility that more attackers were involved in the truck attack in central Stockholm on April 7.

Witnesses recount the horrors that happened to them in Stockholm. Photo: AFP

“I turned around and saw a big truck coming towards me. It was swerving left and right. But it didn’t look like it was losing control, it was trying to hit everyone here,” Glen Foran, an Australian tourist in his 40s, told Reuters.

“The truck crashed into a stroller with a baby inside. The stroller was completely destroyed. It was horrible,” he continued.

Another Reuters witness, who did not want to be named, saw the incident from his car. “We were stopped at the traffic lights on Drottninggatan when we heard screaming and then a truck came. It then crashed into a pillar at the department store. When we stopped, we saw a man lying under the tire. It was horrible.”

Another Reuters witness said he saw police put two bodies in body bags.

The scene of the truck crashing into a department store in the Swedish capital. Photo: AFP

Bloody tyre tracks trace the path of the van, which was stolen by a masked man as it delivered beer to a bar in the Drottninggatan area.

Annevi Petersson, a BBC witness, said she was inside a shop when the attack happened. “I heard a noise. When I went outside, I saw a dead dog and the owner screaming. And I saw a woman with her foot cut off.”

The witness continued: “There was blood everywhere, bodies lying on the ground. I saw people standing next to their loved ones who had died, and also saw many people running into the surrounding small streets. There was an atmosphere of panic.”

According to the latest information, the truck attack in Stockholm, Sweden has killed 4 people, injured 15 others. The Swedish Prime Minister said this could be a terrorist incident. Police have arrested one person related to this incident.

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