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Swedish prosecutors says man arrested on strongest level of suspicion for terror crime

Damage to the department store Ahlens is seen after the beer truck was towed away after a suspected terror attack on the Drottninggatan Street in central Stockholm, Sweden, April 8, 2017. Maja Suslin/TT News Agency/via Reuters

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish prosecutors said on Saturday a man detained in connection with a truck attack in the capital had been arrested on the strongest degree of suspicion of committing a terror crime. Sweden's legal system has several degrees regarding the strength of suspicion. "One person has been arrested on suspicion of terrorist crimes through murder," Karin Rosander, press spokesperson at the prosecutors office told Reuters. (Reporting by Stockholm Newsroom, editing by Niklas Pollard)