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Three people are in life-threatening condition after a man injured eight victims in a stabbing spree in the southern Swedish city of Vetlanda on Wednesday, medical personnel said.
The assailant was taken to hospital after being shot in the leg by police as he was taken into custody following the midafternoon attack in the southern city of 13,000 inhabitants. Police said they were investigating a potential “terror motive”.
Police said the man in his 20s had used a “sharp weapon”, while local media reported that he had brandished a knife.
Two others were left with serious injuries, regional officials said citing staff at the hospital in Jonkoping where the victims were being treated, while the remaining three suffered lighter injuries.

Police initially treated the incident as “attempted murder” but later changed it in a statement to include a “suspected terrorist crime”, without giving further details.
Local resident Olivia Strandberg told broadcaster SVT she did not see the actual attack but witnessed the man being taken away, from her window just as she returned home from work.
“I had just got to my apartment when my best friend wrote me and said: Don’t go out!,” Strandberg said, with the broadcaster showing footage of the suspect being taken away in an ambulance on a quiet street.
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Speaking at a press conference, regional police chief Malena Grann later clarified that a preliminary investigation was still under the designation “attempted murder,” but details had emerged that meant they were also looking into “potential terror motives.”
“There are details in the investigation that have led us to investigate whether there was a terror motive,” Grann said, without giving details. Grann added the police was working closely with the Swedish intelligence service Sapo.
Karl Melin, press chief at Sapo, declined to comment however, telling SVT: “The event in Vetlanda is currently a police issue.”
Local police chief Jonas Lindell told media they had identified five different crime scenes, a few hundred metres apart, in the small city.

Lindell said the suspect was a resident of the area and previously known to police, but in the past had only been suspected of “petty crimes”. He declined to say if the man was a Swedish citizen.
The extent of his injuries were also unknown but police said they believed they would be able question him.
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven condemned the “horrific violence” in a statement published to his Facebook page.
“We face these despicable actions with the combined force of the community,” Lofven said.
“We are reminded of how frail our safe existence is,” Lofven added, encouraging people to have the victims in their thoughts, as well as health workers and police tending to wounded and working to restore peace.
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Swedish intelligence services consider the terrorist threat to be high.
The Scandinavian country has been targeted twice by attacks in recent years.
In December 2010, a man carried out a suicide bomb attack in the centre of Stockholm. He was killed after only slightly injuring passers-by.
In April 2017, a rejected and radicalised Uzbek asylum seeker mowed down pedestrians in Stockholm with a stolen truck, killing five people. He was sentenced to life in prison.


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Police cordoned off the site of a stabbing attack in Vetlanda, Sweden on Wednesday. Photo: Reuters

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Police investigators work at the scene where a man attacked eight people with a "sharp weapon," seriously injuring two, in the Swedish city of Vetlanda on March 3, 2021. - The assailant was taken to hospital after being shot in the leg by police when he was taken into custody, following the attack in the southern Swedish city in mid-afternoon. (Photo by Mikael FRITZON / various sources / AFP) / Sweden OUT

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Eye surgeon Tao Yong was seriously injured in the attack. Photo: Handout

===PHOTO CAPTURED ONLINE=== A man has been detained for injuring three medical staff and a member of the public with a knife at a Beijing hospital on Monday, only weeks after another Beijing doctor had been killed. The man, 36-year-old surnamed Cui, had fled the Chaoyang District Hospital outpatients building around 2pm on Monday. Chaoyang district police has since detained him and is investigating the matter, the police said on Weibo Monday afternoon. The three medical staff and one member of the public are being treated at the hospital with no immediate danger. Among the injured was a doctor, Tao Yong, the head of the ophthalmology department at the hospital, the Beijing Daily reported. A witness told the newspaper Tao was seeing a patient, and a family member of a patient hacked him several times with a vegetable chopper. Photo:ifeng

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The suspect, a man in his 20s, was taken to hospital after being shot in the leg by police
Five other people were hurt, two of them with serious injuries



The suspect, a man in his 20s, was taken to hospital after being shot in the leg by police.


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Sweden stabbing rampage leaves three in life-threatening condition

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The suspect, a man in his 20s, was taken to hospital after being shot in the leg by police

Five other people were hurt, two of them with serious injuries