Many people were seriously injured in a suspected terrorist attack in a city in southern Sweden
On March 3, local time, Swedish TV reported that after a suspected terrorist attack in the southern Swedish city of Vetlanda, 8 people were taken to the hospital and several of them were seriously injured.
The suspect has been shot by the police.
Several areas of the area have been blocked.
At around 3 pm on the 3rd, the police received the call and went to the center of Vetlanda immediately. The caller said that several people were attacked by an axe.
According to the report of the emergency center, the ambulance has taken 8 people to the hospital.
A police spokesman said that the suspected offender was a man in his twenties who had been shot by the police.
The suspect who was injured by the shooting is under police surveillance in the hospital.
"The condition of his injury is not yet clear, but he was in the hospital and was alive when he got there," a police spokesperson said.
During the police operation, parts of the city were sealed off.
The incident was initially investigated as a suspected attempted murder, but later that night, the crime category was changed to suspected terrorism.
(Headquarters reporter Hao Xiaoli)