About 10 people were killed on Tuesday while shooting at the Educational Center in Sweden, including a suspicious revolverist, and the Swedish prime minister recognized him as “the worst mass shooting” in the history of the country.
The authorities initially stated that several people were injured during violence in the Risbergian campus, a highschool for young adults in the city of Orebro, but didn’t report any fatalities.
School attacks are relatively rare in Sweden, but the country suffered shootings and bombings related to gang violence, which kills dozens of people every year.
“About 10 people were killed today,” police head Orebro Roberto Eid Forest told reporters, adding that the police “cannot be more detailed in terms of the number due to the large number of wounded.”
He didn’t provide any details about the number of wounded.
“This is the worst mass shooting in Swedish history,” said Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson at a press conference.
Forest said that the police weren’t aware of the motif yet, but he believed that the bandit was working alone.
“This is a terrible event. This is a unique nightmare, “said Forest.
The police didn’t reveal any details about the identity or age of the dead, or whether or not they were students or teachers at college.
Several media reported that a suspicious gunslinger returned the gun, but the police wouldn’t confirm these reports.
Kristersson noticed that many questions still haven’t any answer. “
“But the time will come once we know what happened, the way it happened and what motives could possibly be for this,” said Kristersson, calling people not to “speculate”.
Forest said that the police received the first reports about the school shooter at 12:33 (1133 GMT), but could not determine how it developed.
It is believed that the attacker carried some form of equipment for creating smoke at school.
Two teachers of the Risbergian campus, Miriam Jarlevall and Patrik Soderman, told the Dagens Nyheter newspaper that they heard the shootings in the corridor.
“Students got here and said someone was shooting. Then we heard more shooting in the corridor. We didn’t leave, we were hiding in our offices, “they said.
“At the starting there have been many shots, after which it was quiet for half an hour, after which it began again. We lay under our desks, cringing. “
Some witnesses told the Swedish media that they heard what they considered automatic shootings.
It was found that the suspect was about 35 years old and had a license to wear weapons and no criminal, but did not provide any details about his identity.
The police did not confirm this information.
The church near the school was open on Tuesday evening to provide community support.
King of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf, said he received a message about the shooting with “sadness and terror.”
“We send condolences to the families and friends of the deceased tonight. Our thoughts presently are also with wounded and their families, in addition to others, “said the king in a statement published by the palace.
The police said that students in several nearby schools, as well as those in question, were closed for several hours “for safety reasons”.
A mother whose son was kept at home at a nearby school for several hours during police surgery, AFP told that she was “shocked” and “indignant”.
“My son is behind us in this school, also they are closed. They should hide, so I’m waiting for them to evacuate, “said the 42 -year -old Sandell CIA on Tuesday afternoon.
“This is crazy, completely crazy. I’m indignant, I’m shocked. It shouldn’t occur, “she said.
Although such shootings are rare, in recent years several other violent incidents have hit Swedish schools.
In March 2022, a 18-year-old student stabbed two teachers to death in a high school in the southern city of Malm.
Two months earlier, the 16-year-old was arrested after hurting another student and a teacher with a knife at a school in the small town of Kristianstad.
In October 2015, three people died during a racially motivated attack at a school in the western city of Trollhattan by a striker holding a sword who was later killed by the police.
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