Around 10 people were killed Tuesday in a shooting at an education centre in Sweden, including the suspected gunman, police said, following the rare gun attack on a campus in the Nordic nation.
Authorities had initially reported several injuries from the incident at Campus Risbergska, a secondary school for young adults in Orebro, but had not announced any fatalities.
“Around 10 people have been killed today,” Orebro police chief Roberto Eid Forest told reporters, adding that the police could not provide more specifics about the number. “The suspected assailant is not known to police.”
He also mentioned that police had not yet identified a motive.
Police first received reports of the school shooting at 12:33 pm, but they could not specify whether the attack occurred inside or outside the school.
Campus Risbergska teachers Miriam Jarlevall and Patrik Soderman told Dagens Nyheter newspaper they heard gunfire in a hallway.
“Students came and said someone was shooting. Then we heard more shooting in the hallway. We didn’t go out, we hid in our offices.”
This shooting reflects that while school attacks are rare in Sweden, the country has suffered from gang violence-related shootings and bombings that kill dozens annually.
