Stockholm attack: A man arrested over deadly truck rampage

Authorities in Sweden have arrested a man for a "terrorist crime", hours after a beer truck ploughed into a crowd outside a busy department store in central Stockholm, killing four.

A truck ploughed into a crowd on a shopping street and killed 4 people Source: AAP-EPA-Fredrik Sandberg

Swedish prosecutors said 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.

"One person has been arrested on suspicion of terrorist crimes through murder," Karin Rosander, press spokesperson at the prosecutors office told Reuters.