A shocked Sweden was to hold a minute of silence today to honour the victims of last week's truck attack by a Uzbek man whom police believe was a jihadist sympathiser.
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven, most of the royal family, and Stockholm Mayor Karin Wanngard were among those due to attend a ceremony outside Stockholm's City Hall at 1000 GMT alongside members of the diplomatic corps.
Smaller ceremonies were planned in other towns across the country.
In Friday's attack, the suspect is alleged to have ploughed a stolen beer truck down a bustling pedestrian street in the heart of Stockholm before crashing it into the facade of the busy Ahlens department store.
Four people were killed and 15 were wounded.
The motive was not known, but the method resembled previous attacks using vehicles in Nice, Berlin and London, all of them claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group.
Meanwhile, police were continuing their investigation into the main suspect, identified as a 39-year-old Uzbek who went underground when he received a deportation order after his permanent residency application was rejected.
Swedish media have identified the suspect as Rakhmat Akilov, a construction worker and father of four.
The far-right Sweden Democratic party, which until now has refrained from comment on the attack, on Monday blasted the authorities' failure to deport the suspect as a "scandal".
"It's a huge scandal if it's true," party leader Jimmie Akesson told the Aftonbladet daily. His party won 12.8 percent of votes in the 2014 legislative election.
"We need to detain people when there is a risk they will go underground, and there appear to be around 10,000 to 15,000 cases," Akesson said.
Sweden, a country of 10 million people, took in 244,000 asylum seekers in 2014 and 2015, the highest per capita number in Europe.
Yesterday, the prime minister, who has beefed up border controls, also expressed "frustration".
"If someone has been rejected, they have to leave the country," Lofven told reporters.
The Social Democratic leader received a condolence call from US President Donald Trump this evening, the government said.
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