A police photographer takes pictures during a house search in an apartment in Varberg south west of Stockholm, Sweden, April 8, 2017. Maja Suslin/TT News Agency via REUTERS
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - An Uzbek man suspected of ramming a truck into a crowd in Stockholm, killing four people, had expressed sympathy for Islamic State and was wanted for failing to comply with a deportation order, Swedish police said on Sunday.
Two sources who had worked with the suspect, Rakhmat Akilov, independently identified him to Reuters from images distributed by police as the manhunt got underway on Friday.
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