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Stockholm suspect admits truck attack

11 April 2017 12:07 (UTC +04:00)

The Stockholm truck attack suspect has confessed to a "terrorist crime", his lawyer says, APA reported citing BBC News.

The admission came at a custody hearing in the Swedish capital.

Rakhmat Akilov, 39 from Uzbekistan, admitted responsibility for the attack in court.

Four people were killed when a lorry was driven into a department store on Friday. A number of people were also injured, including two who are in a critical condition.

"His position is that he admits to a terrorist crime and accepts therefore that he will be detained," said lawyer Johan Eriksson.

He applied for a permanent residency permit in 2014. The migration agency rejected it in June 2016 and also decided that he was to be expelled.

"In December 2016, he was informed by the migration agency that he had four weeks to leave the country. In February 2017, the case was handed over to the police to carry out the order, since the person had gone underground," he said.

On Friday afternoon, a stolen truck rammed into a crowd on a major pedestrian street in Sweden’s capital, Stockholm. At least four people were killed and over a dozen were injured as a result.