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IT WAS a new location, but a familiar script. Just before 3pm on the afternoon of April 7th, afternoon strollers on Drottninggatan, a shopping street in Stockholm, scattered and fled before a lorry attempting to mow them down. The lorry eventually smashed into the front of a department store, and the driver escaped; the company that owned the vehicle announced that it had been stolen earlier that day. Four people were killed and 15 wounded in what was presumed to be a case of jihadist terrorism. The attack echoed those in Nice last July, when a man driving a hijacked lorry killed 86 people at a fireworks display, and in London in March, when a man drove his car onto the pavement at Westminster bridge, killing four pedestrians, before killing a policeman with a knife. Swedish authorities reacted quickly, shutting down the public transit system, emptying shopping malls and searching major facilities such as the central train station. Commuters ...
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