Stockholm, Sweden ? Police searched Thursday for a tall, stocky Swede with acne-scarred skin who fatally stabbed Foreign Minister Anna Lindh in a Stockholm store. Her death removed the nation’s leading campaigner for replacing the krona with the euro — an issue that had inspired vehement opposition.

The 46-year-old Lindh died at a hospital Thursday, a day after she was chased up an escalator and repeatedly stabbed in the stomach, chest and arm. Her attacker fled, dropping his knife and camouflage jacket.

Police said they were searching for a 6-foot Swedish man with bad skin and shoulder-length dark-blond hair, possibly with a criminal record. They said he was about 30, clean-shaven and wore a hooded sweater and hat when last seen. Borders and ferries were being monitored closely. No arrests have been made.

Swedish Prime Minister Goeran Persson said Sunday’s referendum on adopting the euro — the common European Union currency backed by Lindh — would go ahead, though he ordered an immediate halt to campaigning.

Police do not think the attack was politically motivated, although it came just three days before the referendum vote.

“There is nothing that indicates there was any careful planning in this,” Persson said of the attack.

Police spokesman Leif Jennekvist acknowledged police were in need of clues, but ruled out the possibility the suspect might evade justice, like the attacker who killed Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986.

“We are going to find him,” Jennekvist said. “That’s our job.”

The attack on Lindh raised concerns in Sweden and its Nordic neighbors about the openness of their countries, where it’s common to see a prime minister jogging without bodyguards and politicians strolling the streets with their families.

Critics said Sweden’s security agency, known as SAPO, should have learned more from the murder of Palme, who was shot in downtown Stockholm while walking with his wife. Like Lindh, Palme had no bodyguard.

Two women cry in front of a billboard featuring Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh in Stockholm. Lindh died early Thursday after she was stabbed multiple times Wednesday in an upscale Stockholm department store.