A major scare occurred in Stockholm, when a double-decker bus crashed into a shelter in the center of the city, killing three people and injuring several others, with at least two seriously injured. The driver of the vehicle was stopped, but police believe it was an accident, and some speculate that the person driving the bus, which was without passengers at the time, may have become ill.
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But the shock shocked a city that more than 8 years ago had been the scene of a deadly attack when, in April 2017, a truck, driven by an Uzbek asylum seeker whose application had been rejected, overwhelmed crowds on one of the city’s central shopping streets, leaving 5 lifeless bodies on the ground.
The man claimed to have acted in response to bombings against ISIS and said he had planned the attack, as well as carrying out reconnaissance of the pedestrian street chosen for the massacre and had direct orders received from members of the jihadist group in Syria. Despite the fears, the scenario that happened today seems to be just a tragic coincidence: it was 15.23 on Valhallavägen street, near the Royal Swedish Institute of Engineering, when the driver apparently lost control and several buses stopped amidst waiting people.
“We still don’t know the cause”, said the Swedish Prime Minister, Ulf Kristersson, shortly afterwards, while several hours after the accident, the police continued their investigation at the scene to reconstruct the dynamics and determine the cause. One hypothesis being researched is that the driver fell ill, according to sources who spoke to Swedish newspaper Expressen. Various local media reported stories of scenes of terror experienced by many witnesses who were present at the scene of the clashes that occurred near the Teknikka Högskolan metro station. “I saw the bus crash all over the shelter into the trees. It kept going. In the end the bus stopped for some reason,” a man who was on a nearby bus at the time of the collision told Dagens Nyether.
“At this moment, my thoughts go primarily to the affected people and their families,” added Kristersson in his comments on the incident, which also called for “respect and understanding” for the work of investigators. Other political leaders also spoke out about what happened, including opposition leader Magdalena Andersson: “All my support goes to the emergency services personnel, who work to save lives and guarantee people’s health,” she said in Västmanland, an event that occurred three years later in Arboga (the same district) with 9 people killed and 42 injured and another with 6 people killed and 56 people injured that occurred in 2007 in Rasbo, Uppsala.
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