Stockholm's City Hall cordoned off on Thursday morning. Photo:
A man has been killed after a car crashed into Stockholm's City Hall during the early hours of Thursday morning.
The man has not yet been identified, though a police spokesperson confirmed that he was pronounced dead at the scene.
The car drove into the City Hall on the island of Kungsholmen and caught fire at around 2am.
The vehicle was first spotted by a police patrol further west on the island, and officers decided to carry out a check on it. However, the car disappeared from sight after police signalled for it to stop.
"When [the officers] came to the city hall, they saw the same car there, on fire," said police spokesperson Tove Hägg.
"It is part of our job to check vehicles occasionally, but I don't know the circumstances that made them choose to do so in this case," Hägg added.
The cause of the crash is unclear, and the City Hall was cordoned off until around 3:30am.
Police are investigating the incident as a traffic fatality.
"We used dogs to search the area to see if there had been other people in the car, which there weren't," said Hägg.
The extent of the damage to the City Hall - an iconic feature on the capital's skyline - is still unclear as police continue their investigations. Staff with their offices in the affected part of the building were working from home on Thursday, with public tours of the City Hall suspended but expected to resume on Friday.
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