Police in Sweden say they are "98% sure" that a man who blew himself up in Stockholm on Saturday is Middle East-born Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly.
Chief prosecutor Tomas Lindstrand said Abdaly had moved to Sweden in 1992. More recently he was living in the UK.
But he said the body had not yet been formally identified by DNA or a close family member.
Abdaly, 28, is believed to have died as he tried to set off a car bomb in a busy street. Two people were injured.
Mr Lindstrand told a news conference in Stockholm that after interviewing witnesses, investigators now had "a slightly better picture of what happened".
When asked whether Abdaly had been correctly identified as the bomber in the media, he replied: "Yes".
"We have identified the man who blew himself up, to 98%," he said.
Media reports have said Abdaly was born in Iraq but this was not confirmed at the conference.
Mr Lindstrand said the bomber had been carrying three different explosive devices.
"He had a bomb belt on him, he had a backpack with a bomb and he was carrying an object that has been compared to a pressure cooker. If it had all blown up at the same time, it would have been very powerful," he said.
"Where he was headed... we don't know. It is likely that something happened, that he made some kind of mistake, [and] part of the bombs he was carrying went off," he said.
He added: "This was during Christmas shopping in central Stockholm and he was extremely well-equipped when it came to bomb material. It is not much of a stretch to say he was going to a place with as many people as possible."
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