AKIPRESS.COM - The suspect arrested over a deadly terror attack in Stockholm is a 39-year-old dad from Uzbekistan, media reports say. 

Swedish police confirmed a suspect had been arrested while local media claim the man has already confessed to his involvement.

At least four people are dead after a stolen beer lorry ploughed through shoppers on a pedestrianised street at around 3pm local time.

A further 15 are injured, nine of them seriously, including children, Mirror said. 

A suspected terrorist targeted young children deliberately as he drove a hijacked lorry into a crowded shopping street in Stockholm, witnesses claimed last night, Telegraph reported.

A nationwide manhunt was launched and one person arrested after police issued a photograph of a lightly bearded man wearing a hooded top whom they wished to question in connection with the attack, which happened at around 2.45pm local time.

SÖKS AV POLIS: Säpo vill komma i kontakt med man som sågs i samband med lastbilsattacken. https://t.co/UrXzBeYRFP pic.twitter.com/MOozhCAIIK

— Aftonbladet (@Aftonbladet) 7 апреля 2017 г.

Jan Evensson of the Stockholm police said the man who was arrested looked like the person in the surveillance camera photo.

Aftonbladet, a daily newspaper, reported a man with light injuries had been arrested in north Stockholm after claiming he was responsible for carrying out the attack.

A 39-year-old father-of-four from Uzbekistan, according to some reports, had previously posted jihadist propaganda on his Facebook page and had images of people injured in the explosion at the Boston Marathon in April 2013.