11 shares Police investigators work at the scene where a man attacked seven people, seriously injuring three, in the Swedish city of Vetlanda on March 3, 2021. (Mikael FRITZON / various sources / AFP) STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish authorities were investigating on Thursday whether a knife attack by an Afghan man who stabbed seven men and left three of them in critical but stable condition had any links to terrorism. The suspect, who was not named under Swedish policy rules, now faces several counts of attempted murder. “There also was initial information in the investigation that led police to believe that they should look at terrorism as being the motive,” Home Affairs Minister Mikael Damberg told reporters. “It is not strange that when there is such a type of atrocity in Sweden that a connection to terrorism is also being investigated.”