Afghan Man Gets Life for March Stabbing Rampage in Sweden

Afghan Man Gets Life for March Stabbing Rampage in Sweden
Carina Lennquist, Deputy Regional Police Chief, gives an interview following a press conference at the city hall in Vetlanda on March 4, 2021, one day after a stabbing attack. Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty Images
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark—A 22-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker was convicted Wednesday of attempted murder and sentenced to life imprisonment for a knife attack that injured seven people in a southern Swedish town earlier this year.

Tamin Sultani was shot by police and arrested after an 18-minute rampage on March 3. Investigators who dismissed terrorism as a motive charged him with seven cases of attempted murder.