Police have found explosives in the truck used in the attack in Stockholm, Swedish television said on Saturday citing multiple unnamed police sources.

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Swedish public broadcaster SVT said that police had found a bag containing explosives.

The head of the Swedish Security Police told Swedish TV4 that he could not confirm whether explosives had been found.

Swedish police have arrested a man on "suspicion of terrorist crime". The suspect was likely to be the driver of a truck that ploughed into a crowd of people in central Stockholm on Friday.

"We suspect that the man who was arrested is the perpetrator," said Stockholm police spokesman Lars Bystrom.

The attack killed four people and injured 15, nine of them seriously.

Police had earlier said they had detained a man who "matched the description" of a photo released of a suspect wearing a dark hoodie and military green jacket. Bystrom said the arrested man "could be the same person in the picture".

According to the newspaper Aftonbladet, the individual in the photo is a 39-year-old man of Uzbek origin and a supporter of the Islamic State (IS) group.

If confirmed as a terror attack, it would be Sweden's first such deadly assault.

The attack occurred just before 3:00 pm (1300 GMT) when a stolen beer truck slammed into the corner of the bustling Ahlens store and the popular pedestrian street Drottninggatan.

Friday's attack was the latest in a string of similar assaults with vehicles in Europe, including in London, Berlin and the southern French city of Nice

(With Agencies Inputs)