The suspected attacker was an asylum seeker who had his application rejected, Stockholm police said.
A 39-year-old native of Uzbekistan was arrested as the suspected driver of the truck that plowed into shoppers on Friday, according to the Associated Press.
Other sources quoted by Expressen on Saturday said the man had already confessed to police at the time of his arrest in a northern Stockholm suburb on Friday, saying "I'm the one who did it". Stockholm county spokesman Patrik Soderberg said four of the 10 were considered "seriously" injured and the remaining six, including the child, were slightly hurt.
Floral tributes are left at the scene of the terrorist attack where a truck crashed after driving down a pedestrian street in downtown Stockholm on April 8, 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden. Of the four victims, three were killed at Drottningatan in central Stockholm, and one died in the hospital later.
Eliasson said investigators were scrutinizing the suspect's social media accounts and contacts, but declined to be drawn on whether the man had connections to ISIS or other terror groups.
"I thought everyone would run past me and save themselves", Papusa Ciuraru, whose foot was crushed by a boulder displaced by the speeding truck, told the Expressen daily.
"I think it's very important to stay strong together against anything that wants to change our society, which is based on democracy", said Marianne, who gave only her first name and came with her elderly mother.
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A 39-year-old Uzbek man was arrested earlier as the suspected driver of the truck that rammed into crowds in the Swedish capital on Friday.
The prosecutor has until noon Tuesday to ask the court to detain the suspect, said Karin Rosander, spokeswoman for Sweden's prosecutor's office.
Last December, 12 people were killed and at least 48 people were wounded when a truck drove into a Christmas Market in Berlin.
Live television footage showed smoke coming out of the upscale Ahlens department store on Drottninggatan Street, which the truck smashed into.
Attendees laid flowers on a large Swedish flag placed down the square's steps.
He added that the probe demands that police do "all the things that are necessary to make a good investigation". "We don't know if it is a bomb or some kind of flammable substance". The department store is part of Sweden-wide chain. In response, hundreds gathered Saturday at the site of the crash in the Swedish capital, building a heartbreaking wall of flowers on the aluminum fence put up to keep them away from the site's broken glass and twisted metal.
The man, detained on Friday night on terrorism charges after the attack in the capital, appeared to have acted alone but "we still can not rule out that more people are involved", he said.
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