STOCKHOLM — 2017 · Major Tragedy

Drottninggatan Truck Attack

SolvedSources: ALast updated: 14 October 2026

At around 14:53 on 7 April 2017, a hijacked brewery truck was driven into crowds of pedestrians on Drottninggatan, Stockholm's main shopping street, before crashing into the Åhléns City department store. Five people were killed and many injured. The attacker was arrested the same day. It emerged that the 39-year-old Uzbek citizen's asylum application had been rejected, that a deportation order issued in late 2016 had not been carried out because he went into hiding, and that he sympathised with ISIS. In June 2018 a Stockholm court sentenced him to life imprisonment for terrorist offences and ordered his deportation upon release. The attack prompted debate in Sweden about the enforcement of deportation orders.

Date: 2017
Place: Norrmalm, Sweden, Stockholm, SE
Category: Major Tragedy
Case Status: Solved
Coordinates: 59.3326, 18.0649 ↗

Timeline of Events

7 April 2017, 14:53The hijacked truck was driven down Drottninggatan; five people died.
7 April 2017The attacker was arrested north of Stockholm.

February 2018The trial opened in Stockholm.
7 June 2018The attacker was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Sources

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