A van drove into a crowd of people outside a busy department store in central Stockholm on Friday, injuring people, police said.
“Police received a call from SOS Alarm that a person in a vehicle has injured other people on Drottninggatan,” police wrote on Twitter.
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The incident occurred just before 1300 GMT at corner of the Ahlens department store and the city’s biggest pedestrian street, above-ground from Stockholm’s central subway station.
Thick smoke was rising from the scene, but police have yet to confirm the information.
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Video images showed an area blocked off by police and crowds gathering around the police cordon.
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Helicopters could be heard hovering in the sky over central Stockholm, and a large number of police cars and ambulances were dispatched to the scene, witnesses said.
It was not immediately clear whether it was an accident or an attack.
(Feature image source: Twitter)