Stockholm truck attacker swore allegiance to Islamic State, trial told

An Uzbek man who carried out a deadly attack in Stockholm last year swore allegiance to the Islamic State group in a video and wrote that he wanted "to scare the infidels and leave my life", prosecutors have said.

Rakhmat Akilov went on trial on Tuesday at Stockholm District Court for ramming a stolen truck into a crowd in the Swedish capital, killing five people and injuring 14 others because he wanted to punish Sweden for joining a coalition against IS.