Swedish couple say 11-year-old daughter died in truck attack
STOCKHOLM — An 11-year-old girl was one of the four people killed when a truck rammed into a crowd in Stockholm, her parents said, while Russian media reported Wednesday that the main suspect in the attack had been wanted in Uzbekistan.
Sweden’s TV4 said Tuesday evening that the parents released a statement saying they wanted to thank “the Swedish people for all the warmth and love you have given us at a time of despair and pain.” They requested “peace and quiet” to grieve the death of their daughter, Ebba Akerlund.
Other victims of Friday’s attack included a 31-year-old Belgian woman, a 69-year-old Swedish woman, and a 41-year-old Briton whom the British government identified as Chris Bevington, an executive at Swedish music-streaming service Spotify. Fifteen others were injured in the attack, with eight still hospitalized.
Rakhmat Akilov, a 39-year-old Uzbek man, has pleaded guilty to a terrorist crime after ramming the truck into the crowd, according to his lawyer, Johan Eriksson.