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Sweden Attack: Truck Plows Into Stockholm Department Store

A truck plowed into a crowd in Sweden's capital before crashing into a department store.

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Image: People were killed when a truck crashed into department store Ahlens on Drottninggatan, in central Stockholm

Emergency responders work at the scene after a truck crashed into the Ahlens department store in central Stockholm on April 7, 2017.

At least two people were killed and many others injured in what Sweden's prime minister said was likely an act of terrorism.

— TT News Agency / Reuters
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Passersby react at the scene.

If confirmed, it would mark the latest in a series of low-tech, vehicle-based terror attacks across Europe over recent years.

— Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP - Getty Images
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Police cordon off the scene. 

The attack took place at the the corner of the Ahlens department store and Drottninggatan, one of Stockholm's busiest streets. 

— Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP - Getty Images
Image: Police cordon off the truck that crashed into the Ahlens department store at Drottninggatan in central Stockholm, April 7, 2017.

Police cordon off the truck.
— Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP - Getty Images
Image: A truck crashed into a crowd outside of a department store in downtown Stockholm, April 7, 2017.

Bodies lay in the street near the scene of the attack. 

— Aftonbladet / Zuma Press
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An officer puts up police tape at the scene. 

— Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP - Getty Images
Image: Ambulance in a street near the site were a truck was driving into a crowd in central Stockholm

An ambulance sits on a street near the scene.
— Per Haljestam / Reuters
Image: A young woman, an evacuee from the central train station, reacts after three people were killed when a truck crashed into a department store, Ahlens, in central Stockholm

A young woman reacts after being evacuated from the central train station following the crash.

— Anders Wiklund / TT News Agency via Reuters
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Police officers work at the scene of the crash. 

Read full story: Truck Plows Into Department Store, Fatalities Confirmed

— Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP - Getty Images
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