A Reuters witness saw police wearing protective masks carrying out a search at an apartment in a southern Stockholm suburb. Sweden will hold a minute's silence at midday on Monday (local time) to mourn the dead. Support for the opposition far-right Sweden Democrat party, which links worries about education, welfare costs and crime with immigration, has continued to rise. Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack in Nice, France, in July 2016, when a truck killed 86 people, and a truck attack on a Christmas market in Berlin in December that killed 12. In February U.S. President Donald Trump falsely suggested there had been an immigration-related security incident in Sweden, to the bafflement of Swedes.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 08, 2017 21:00 UTC