Stockholm truck attacker jailed for life for terrorism

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An Uzbek man named Rakhmat Akilov, who carried out a Stockholm terror attack in April 2017, was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday for terrorist crimes.

“The defendant has among a series of crimes been found guilty of terrorist offense by murder in five cases. The penalty has been set to life imprisonment,” the Stockholm District Court said in a statement.

The attacker was a rejected asylum seeker and had expressed sympathy for the Islamic State (IS) group before the attack in Stockholm last year, which killed five people and injured another ten.

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Source(s): Reuters