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STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) — Environmental campaigners Greenpeace said Sunday they had lifted a blockade of an oil refinery imposed to protest plans to expand it, after nearly three days of the action. The organization had since Thursday evening been blocking tankers from delivering oil to the plant, which is run by the Preem group at Lysekil, about 100 kilometres north of Gothenburg. After weeks of protests across the country against the project and a 62-hour […]
(Eagle News) — If her bus did not stop in time, a Filipina, Pauline Bautista, recalls how she could have easily been one the victims of the truck that plowed into a crowd on a busy pedestrian street at the heart of Drottninggatan, Stockholm’s shopping district on Friday, April 7. Bautista, a correspondent of Eagle Broadcasting Corporation’s Eagle News Service in Sweden, recalled the horrific incident as she returned on that busy pedestrian street recalling […]
These photos taken by Eagle News Service correspondent Fritzie Joy Pijana show people also appreciating the efforts of the police force in Stockholm that responded to the terror truck attack that killed four people and injured 15 others. The four people killed in the attack were two Swedes — one woman and an 11-year-old girl — a British man, and a Belgian woman
by Ilgin Karlidag Agence France Presse Suspected Stockholm truck attacker Rakhmat Akilov, a 39-year-old Uzbek and jihadist sympathizer, admitted Tuesday to committing a “terrorist crime” by mowing down pedestrians on a busy street, killing four people and injuring 15 others. “Akilov confesses to a terrorist crime and accepts his custody detention,” his lawyer Johan Eriksson told a custody hearing in a Stockholm district court. Akilov, who was arrested in a Stockholm suburb just hours after Friday’s […]
Sweden’s Eagle News Service correspondent, Pauline Bautista, a Filipina, recalls the horror and shock of witnessing first hand the tragic truck attack in the country’s capital of Stockholm. Bautista recalled how the bus she was riding in stopped just in the nick of time, a few seconds before the “terror truck” passed through and rammed the crowd on the busy street. The people were crying, shouting, running. Some were frantically calling the police or […]
These photos by Eagle News Service’s Pauline Bautista, Fritzie Joy Pijana and Celma Mariano in Stockholm, Sweden captured how people paid tribute to the victims of the April 7 truck attack in the Swedish capital that shocked the country. The tragedy claimed four victims, and injured 15 more people. Pauline also was at the scene of the truck attack when it happened on Friday, April 7. (Eagle News Service)
https://youtu.be/0TOcXF-7biA People flock to the tragic scene of the April 7 terror truck attack in the heart of Stockholm, capital of Sweden, where four people were killed and 15 were injured. With flowers and prayers, the mourners wrote their messages of love and peace on colorful sticky notes that they placed on a wall of Ahlens department store at the corner of the Drottninggatan pedestrian street, where a stolen beer truck mowed […]
Sweden is shocked after the terror truck attack on Friday (April 7) that killed four people and injured 15 others in Stockholm. Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven described this as a terrorist act. “Sweden has been attacked, everything indicates that this is a terrorist act,” he said.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) — Sweden early Saturday arrested a man for a “terrorist crime,” prosecutors said, hours after a beer truck ploughed into a crowd outside a busy department store in central Stockholm, killing four. The man was arrested “on suspicion of a terrorist crime through murder,” Karin Rosander, a communications director at the Swedish Prosecution Authority, told AFP. Police said earlier on Friday after the attack that they had detained the man who “matched […]
by Camille Bas-Wohlert and Ilgin Karlidag Agence France Presse STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) — Stockholm’s usually vibrant city centre was eerily silent on Friday evening with restaurants, bars and cinemas shuttered and streets emptied hours after a truck ploughed into a crowd outside a department store, killing four people and injuring 15. Stockholmers appeared to be following police advice to stay indoors and avoid crowded areas, with a number of normally-bustling city streets deserted. The […]
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) — Music icon Bob Dylan is set to receive his Nobel prize this weekend at a meeting with the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. “The good news is that the Swedish Academy and (Dylan) have decided to meet this weekend. The Academy will then hand over Dylan’s Nobel diploma and the Nobel medal, and congratulate him on the Nobel Prize in Literature,” Sara Danius, permanent secretary of the Academy, wrote in a blog […]
