{"id":191122,"date":"2021-03-05T12:15:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T17:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=191122"},"modified":"2021-03-05T12:15:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T17:15:12","slug":"swedish-police-mass-stabbing-committed-by-afghan-migrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/swedish-police-mass-stabbing-committed-by-afghan-migrant\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish Police: Mass-stabbing committed by Afghan migrant"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fswedish-police-mass-stabbing-committed-by-afghan-migrant%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=191122&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2382047\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2382047\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police are seen in the area after several people were attacked in Vetlanda, Sweden, Wednesday, March 3, 2021. Swedish police say a man has assaulted at least eight people in a southern Sweden town, and that the case was being investigated as \u201da suspected terrorist crime.\u201d Police said a man in his 20s attacked people in the small town of Vetlanda, about 190 kilometers (118 miles) southeast of Goteborg, Sweden\u2019s second largest city. (Mikael Fritzon\/TT News Agency via AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 9:12 AM PT \u2013 Friday, March 5, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Authorities are investigating the motive behind an axe attack in Sweden. On Thursday, the Eastern Region deputy police chief, Carina Lennquist, confirmed the recent mass-stabbing in the small town of Vetlanda was committed by an Islamist migrant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suspect that we have in custody right now is 22-years-old and he lives here in Vetlanda,\u201d she stated. \u201cHe is originally from Afghanistan and he\u2019s been living here for some years, what we know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The suspect went on a rampage with a knife and an axe, stabbing seven people on Wednesday before he was shot and wounded by the police. Authorities asserted he\u2019s already facing charges on seven-counts of attempted murder, but a counter-terrorism investigation is still underway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to look in many directions and one of them is a possible terrorist attack, so we haven\u2019t closed that,\u201d Chief Lennquist explained. \u201cWhat we suspect right now, I can\u2019t really tell you, but we have cooperation with Europe, with the Swedish National Police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mainstream media have tried to deny the attack\u2019s connection to migrant violence, but the head police officer of Jonkoping Region, Malena Grann, said they are looking into the suspect\u2019s ties to ethnic crime networks and terror-cells.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are investigating a possible terror motive,\u201d he stated. \u201cThe motive is an important part of the investigation and that would influence a different crime classification and that is why the motive is very important, but at the moment the case is classified as attempted murder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Three victims faced life threatening wounds while two were seriously injured and three suffered light to moderate injuries. That\u2019s according to the surgical care director of Jonkoping Regional Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>This incident follows a 2017 incident in Stockholm in which an Uzbek migrant who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State drove a truck into crowds of shoppers. Five people were killed before the driver crashed into a department store. The perpetrator of that attack, Rakhmat Akilov, was arrested and later sentenced to life in prison.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation into Sweden\u2019s latest possible terrorist attack is ongoing and officials said they will continue providing updates.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/dave-keene-biden-second-amendment-policies-most-radical-since-1960s\/\">Dave Keene: Biden Second Amendment policies most radical since 1960\u2019s<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are seen in the area after several people were attacked in Vetlanda, Sweden, Wednesday, March 3, 2021. 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