Not less than 10 individuals had been killed and an unidentified variety of others injured at a taking pictures at a middle for grownup schooling in central Sweden on Tuesday, the authorities stated.
The police stated they’d began a “main operation” and locked down the campus within the metropolis of Orebro, after photographs had been heard about 12:30 p.m. native time.
“That is an terrible, distinctive incident — a nightmare,” stated Roberto Eid Forest, head of the native police. “We don’t suppose there may be any terror motive behind this, however it’s too early within the investigation to say.”
“We expect we have now the perpetrator, however we’re not ruling out something,” he added Tuesday night.
At a information convention earlier within the day, the police stated they believed that the shooter was among the many wounded, however didn’t provide additional particulars on a motive or the particular person’s identification. The shooter most probably acted alone and was not affiliated with a gang and was not recognized to the police, Mr. Forest stated.
“We suspect one of many individuals within the hospital is the perpetrator,” the police stated in an earlier statement posted on-line.
Pictures in Swedish information shops earlier within the day confirmed dozens of police vehicles surrounding the middle’s campus. The police locked down a number of different faculties within the space as a part of their response.
“It’s a very painful day for all of Sweden,” the Swedish prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, stated in a press release on social media. “Being locked in a classroom, fearing in your life, is a nightmare that nobody ought to should expertise.”
Faculty shootings are comparatively uncommon in Sweden, however the nation has seen an increase in violent crime lately. In 2022, an 18-year-old scholar killed two teachers within the southern metropolis of Malmo. In 2015, Sweden was shocked when a 21-year-old man, armed with a sword, killed a teacher and a student at a faculty within the southwestern a part of the nation.
“Shocked by the horrible information from Orebro,” Nooshi Dadgostar, the chief of the opposition Left Celebration, said on social media. “The violence our nation goes by way of is an abyss we should discover our manner out of collectively.”
