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2021-03-04 Europe

8 people have been injured, in what initial reports sat was a terrorist attack in Vetlanda Sweden

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BREAKING: At least 8 people have been injured, in what initial reports sat was a terrorist attack in #Vetlanda #Sweden. The suspect was shot by police and arrested.
Police have not confirmed the motive yet. pic.twitter.com/dtWYuqMeK9
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The Local - Sweden adds:

Police have not confirmed the type of weapon used in the attack.

The suspect was described by police as being in his 20s, and the state of his injuries as “unclear” but not judged to be life-threatening. He was being treated at hospital under police observation and questioning had not yet started.

Police said the suspect was previously known to police for “minor crimes” and lived in Småland.

According to the police report, the first emergency calls about the attack came in shortly before 3pm, with the first patrol arriving on the scene at 3.10pm. Police said that the suspect was located three minutes after the first patrol arrived, and that the armed man was shot and arrested.

At 6.47pm police announced that they were investigating whether the attack was motivated by terrorism.

Questioned by Göteborgs Posten on why the incident was suspected as terrorism, police said: “There are details in the investigation that lead us to investigate a possible terror motive, but I cannot give further information.”

They said there was no indication of further suspects being involved in the incident, and that the situation at the scene in Vetlanda was “under control”.

Sweden’s national terror threat level is currently at three on a scale of one to five. At the press conference, police said they had had no previous information that such an incident was likely in Vetlanda but said the threat level “indicates that something of this kind could happen in Sweden”.

Five areas of the town, located in the centre several hundred metres apart, have been identified as crime scenes and cordoned off in connection with the investigation.

Vetlanda is a town in Jönköping, southern Sweden, located around 275 kilometres southwest of Stockholm and home to around 14,000 inhabitants.

More from the Daily Mail:

The assailant, reportedly a 22-year-old Afghan national, was shot in the leg after launching his attack at around 3pm in Vetlanda, a small town in the country's south.

Three of the victims suffered life-threatening injuries, while another two were said to be in a 'serious condition.'

Local media gave conflicting reports that the assailant used either a knife or an axe.

Last night, police raided the suspect's apartment in the town. He is known to police and has previous convictions for minor drugs offences, including possession of cannabis, according to daily newspaper Expressen.

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File under: Devout Moslems

#1 So not Sven in the Longhouse with a bearded axe?

Posted by CrankyOldYankee 2021-03-04 12:24|| 2021-03-04 12:24|| Front Page Top

#2 At 6.47pm police announced that they were investigating whether the attack was motivated by terrorism.

The attack was motivated by the Koran. Anyone who's read it knows.

Posted by jpal 2021-03-04 13:51|| 2021-03-04 13:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Gates of Vienna provides a translation from the local press:

Dagens Nyheter now reports that the man was registered in Sweden in 2018 and that he previously was convicted for a low-level drug offense.

“He spoke very poor Swedish and no English; it was difficult to make contact,” a neighbor of the man says to DN.

Another neighbor states that a woman used to regularly come to the man’s home to help him.

The man moved to Vetlanda from another place nearby just a year ago, according to DN.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-03-04 14:20|| 2021-03-04 14:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Afghani, per my cousin's sort of good Swedish.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2021-03-04 15:25|| 2021-03-04 15:25|| Front Page Top

#5 First off the Swedes need to take the bearded axes to the turds that are letting the Muslims into Sweden , then remove the Muslims .

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