The Swedish police arrested a 39-year-old Uzbek man on Friday evening as the suspected driver of the truck, and the officials are now questioning seven more people.
His application for residency was rejected in June a year ago and he was being sought by immigration officials, police said.
Meanwhile, Swedish police arrested a second suspect accused of involvement in the attack. He declined to name the suspect, who had been arrested within hours of Friday's attack on shoppers in Stockholm. She did not give further details about the new suspect. They said they have been questioning people in connection with the case but no one else has been detained.
The dead included two Swedish citizens, one Briton and one Belgian, said Jan Evensson, the strategic commander of the Stockholm police. The explosives had originally been in the glove compartment, this report originally released by local Swedish media.
On Sunday morning ten of the injured remained in hospital, two of them in intensive care, Stockholm, authorities told Reuters.
The newspaper Dagens Nyheter said the suspect sought asylum in Sweden several years ago but did not have a criminal record.
Stockholm was returning to normal yesterday, with police barricades taken down along Drottninggatan Street, where the attack took place. In December, a large truck plowed into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12.
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Hopefully we haven't been dragged straight back into it, but judging on that performance tonight, it looks like we have. Ian Wright tweeted after the game that the dressing room was "lost" and that is certainly how it looked.
Ciuraru said she "tried to get up and run but got a huge rock over my leg".
A 39-year-old Uzbek believed to have extremist sympathies is under arrest for allegedly ramming a stolen truck into a crowd at the Ahlens department store.
In a statement on its Facebook page, the Ahlens department store apologized "for a bad decision". "That is what we're going to build on", she said, praising a city "characterised by openness and tolerance".
A fire broke out after the truck smashed into its entrance but was quickly extinguished.
"Police have arrested a person and we have appointed a public defender", Helga Hullmann, judge at the Stockholm District Court said. "We are now investigating its content", Dan Eliasson, chief of the Swedish Police said at a press conference on Saturday.
He added that the probe demands that police do "all the things that are necessary to make a good investigation".
"We have been too liberal to take in people who perhaps we thought would have good minds". 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. "I looked out of the store and saw a big truck".
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