Death Toll Of Stockholm Truck Attack Rises To Five

The number of people killed in the Stockholm truck attack has risen to five, following the death of a woman in her 60s.

Police said in a statement that the woman, who has not been publicly identified, had been hospitalised in southern Sweden following the attack on 7 April.

Other victims of attack were an 11-year-old Swedish girl, a 31-year-old Belgian woman, a 69-year-old Swedish woman, and a 41-year-old British man identified as Chris Bevington. Fourteen others were injured in the attack.

Rakhmat Akilov, a 39-year-old Uzbek man, has pleaded guilty to a terrorist crime for ramming the truck into a crowd in the Swedish capital on a main pedestrian shopping street

Police have not disclosed a motive for the attack and no extremist group has claimed responsibility for it.

However, the Swedish government has announced tougher measures against illegal immigration, as it emerged Akilov had ignored a deportation order.

Prior to the attack the country had been known for its open policy towards refugees. In 2015, a record 163,000 asylum-seekers arrived in the country - the highest per-capita rate in Europe.

Source: Associated Press

Featured Image Credit: PA Images

Topics: Sweden, terror attack

James Dawson

James Dawson is a Journalist at LADbible. He has contributed articles to LADbible’s ‘Knowing Me, Knowing EU’ series on the EU referendum, the 'Electoral Dysfunction' series on the 2017 general election, the ‘U OK M8?’ series tackling mental health amongst young men, and for its ‘Climate Change’ initiative in partnership with National Geographic.

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