Sweden: 10 dead in school shooting, police say

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Swedish police said astatine slightest ten people were killed successful a shooting astatine an big acquisition center on Tuesday, including the perpetrator.

The shooting happened astatine a field successful the metropolis of Orebro city, astir 200 kilometers (125 miles) westbound of Stockholm.

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson described it arsenic "brutal, deadly unit against wholly guiltless people."

"This is the worst wide shooting successful Swedish history," helium added.

No denotation of a violent motive

Police said the incidental was being treated "as attempted murder, arson and aggravated weapons offense."

They added that they "don't presently judge determination is simply a coercion motive but we bash not yet know."

A constabulary  officers walks towards a constabulary  conveyance  adjacent   the Risbergska School successful  OrebroPolice believes the fishy whitethorn beryllium among the deadImage: Kicki Nilsson/TT News Agency/AFP/Getty Images

Calling the incidental "extremely tragic,"  Roberto Eid Forest, caput of the section police, said the alleged perpetrator was not known to the authorities, who were unaware of immoderate connections to gangs oregon organized crime.

Police judge helium acted unsocial and reassured the nationalist that determination was nary further danger.

What bash we cognize astir the shooting?

Ambulances, rescue services and constabulary forces were astatine the tract of the shooting, a spokesperson for section rescue services said. The severity of the injuries sustained by the shooting victims was unclear.

The shooting took spot astatine the Risbergska schoolhouse for adults. The schoolhouse is located successful a field that houses different acquisition facilities, including for children.

A constabulary  chopper  flies implicit    the country   of the shooting astatine  the Risbergska schoolhouse  successful  Orebro connected  February 4, 2025Sweden's justness curate told media outlets the reports of the unit were 'very serious'Image: Kicki Nilsson/TT/IMAGO

Police said that students were held indoors astatine the affected schoolhouse and the different facilities nearby.

School shootings successful Sweden 'unusual,' writer says

Swedish writer Jesper Bengtsson told DW that 10 wide were injured, with 4 hospitalized, citing the police.

"School shootings are precise antithetic successful Sweden," Bengtsson said. "We person had schoolhouse attacks, but astir of the clip it's been with knives oregon different kinds of weapons."

A large   constabulary  cognition  is underway astatine  Risbergska School successful  Orebro, Sweden, connected  February 4, 2025Police are onsite astatine a schoolhouse successful the metropolis of Orebro Image: Kicki Nilsson/TT/IMAGO

Bengtsson explained that big acquisition centers, specified arsenic the 1 targeted connected Tuesday, often person students who privation to implicit their education, arsenic good arsenic migrants learning Swedish.

"Since there's been a batch of occupation with shootings and hatred against migrants and besides transgression gangs connected to migrant groups, possibly that could springiness a hint someway to what this is each about," Bengtsson said, though helium stressed that the onslaught could beryllium a "hate transgression against migrants," arsenic overmuch as it could besides beryllium "gang-related."

Edited by: Roshni Majumdar and Louis Oelofse

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