STOCKHOLM, Sept 16: Swedish police said on Tuesday they had caught a man wanted in connection with the murder of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh.

“The man for whom an arrest warrant had been issued in the murder of Anna Lindh has been caught,” Stockholm duty police officer Kurt-Erik Hansson said.

The man was arrested at a restaurant outside a stadium in a Stockholm suburb, he said.

Police spokeswoman Stina Wessling refused to say whether the publication of photographs of the main suspect had led to the identification.

“We are in a very intensive working period. We have no further information to give out,” she said.

Legal experts told TV4 broadcaster that, according to their information, police had established the name of the wanted man.

Two newspapers, Aftonbladet and Expressen, quoting prosecution officials, reported that the man and another person had been arrested during a raid in Stockholm.

Wessling also declined to comment on other media reports that the girlfriend of the main suspect was also being interrogated.

The 46-year-old foreign minister was repeatedly stabbed by a man in front of several witnesses as she was shopping in an upmarket Stockholm department store. She died 13 hours later in hospital.

From the beginning the police said the killer apparently acted alone and spontaneously and was likely to be mentally disturbed, a violent criminal or drug addict. —dpa