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Swedish foreign minister stabbed
Lindh is among Sweden's most popular politicians
Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh has been repeatedly stabbed in an attack in a Stockholm department store.
Doctors carried out emergency surgery on what were described as serious knife injuries.
"She has stab wounds in the chest, stomach and arms and is being operated on now, but the wounds are not life-threatening," police spokeswoman Stina Wessling told Reuters.
Prime Minister Goran Persson said: "The attack on her is an attack on our open society and because of this I am feeling great anger and dismay."
God, he has stabbed me in the stomach
Anna Lindh, quoted by eyewitness
There has been no comment from the Karolinska hospital, where she is being treated.
But Ms Lindh's spokesman, Dan Svanell, told the TT news agency: "She has a serious injury in the abdomen and we cannot say anything about her condition until the operation is completed."
Ms Lindh, one of Sweden's most popular politicans, was carried from the Nordiska Kompaniet store on a stretcher. The attack happened at around 1600 local time (1400GMT).
"She laid on the floor and it looked as if a tall man, wearing a peaked cap, was hitting her," eyewitness Hanna Sundberg told AP news agency.
"But when he ran away, he threw away a knife."
There is nothing pointing at a political motive right now
Police spokesman Bjoern Pihlblad
Ms Lindh told her: "God, he has stabbed me in the stomach", the shopper said.
Police were said to be searching for a man wearing a camouflage jacket who fled from the store, and denied reports that a man was being held.
"There is nothing pointing at a political motive right now," said police spokesman Bjoern Pihlblad.
However, Mr Persson said security had been tightened around government buildings.
Police seal off the crime scene
He also said that he was suspending the campaign for a Yes vote in Sunday's referendum on membership of the euro.
Ms Lindh, 46, had been playing a leading a role in the campaign, which the government appears likely to lose.
A registered nurse told AP she had found Ms Lindh on the store's floor, apparently in shock, with cloth wrapped around her right wrist.
The Social Democrat has been foreign minister since 1998. She is married with two children.
In 1986 Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot dead as he walked home with his wife in Stockholm.
The killing has never formally been solved, although a man cleared of the crime later wrote to a newspaper confessing.
Swedish foreign minister stabbed
Lindh is among Sweden's most popular politicians
Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh has been repeatedly stabbed in an attack in a Stockholm department store.
Doctors carried out emergency surgery on what were described as serious knife injuries.
"She has stab wounds in the chest, stomach and arms and is being operated on now, but the wounds are not life-threatening," police spokeswoman Stina Wessling told Reuters.
Prime Minister Goran Persson said: "The attack on her is an attack on our open society and because of this I am feeling great anger and dismay."
God, he has stabbed me in the stomach
Anna Lindh, quoted by eyewitness
There has been no comment from the Karolinska hospital, where she is being treated.
But Ms Lindh's spokesman, Dan Svanell, told the TT news agency: "She has a serious injury in the abdomen and we cannot say anything about her condition until the operation is completed."
Ms Lindh, one of Sweden's most popular politicans, was carried from the Nordiska Kompaniet store on a stretcher. The attack happened at around 1600 local time (1400GMT).
"She laid on the floor and it looked as if a tall man, wearing a peaked cap, was hitting her," eyewitness Hanna Sundberg told AP news agency.
"But when he ran away, he threw away a knife."
There is nothing pointing at a political motive right now
Police spokesman Bjoern Pihlblad
Ms Lindh told her: "God, he has stabbed me in the stomach", the shopper said.
Police were said to be searching for a man wearing a camouflage jacket who fled from the store, and denied reports that a man was being held.
"There is nothing pointing at a political motive right now," said police spokesman Bjoern Pihlblad.
However, Mr Persson said security had been tightened around government buildings.
Police seal off the crime scene
He also said that he was suspending the campaign for a Yes vote in Sunday's referendum on membership of the euro.
Ms Lindh, 46, had been playing a leading a role in the campaign, which the government appears likely to lose.
A registered nurse told AP she had found Ms Lindh on the store's floor, apparently in shock, with cloth wrapped around her right wrist.
The Social Democrat has been foreign minister since 1998. She is married with two children.
In 1986 Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot dead as he walked home with his wife in Stockholm.
The killing has never formally been solved, although a man cleared of the crime later wrote to a newspaper confessing.
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