IS recruited Akilov himself after he left Uzbekistan in 2014, Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov told reporters on Friday.
Last Friday’s assault took place in Drottninggatan, one of the Stockholm’s main pedestrian areas, where a truck ploughed through a crowd, killing four and injuring over a dozen people.
The Swedish police identified the alleged perpetrator as a rejected asylum seeker and Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) sympathizer. He managed to flee the scene, but was arrested after a manhunt.
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