The shooting of the Swedish school leaves at least 10 dead in a “worse” weapon attack in the country
He left a gunfire on an adult education campus in central Sweden on Tuesday, at least 10 people were killed and an unknown number of others, while the Prime Minister called it the worst mass shooting in the country’s history.
The country’s Minister of Justice said that the suspect was among the dead. But the authorities issued some other details, including the identity of the person and a potential motivation.
“We do not believe that there is any terrorist motive behind this, but it is too early to investigate the saying,” said Roberto Eid Forst, the local police chief on Tuesday evening. He added: “We believe that we have a perpetrator, but we do not rule out anything.”
The shooting in Orbro, a city about 120 miles to the west of the capital, Stockholm. It came at a time when Sweden, which was associated with high living standards, equality and welcoming asylum policies, was struggling with one of the highest rates of armed violence in the European Union.
The shooting broke out on Tuesday around 12:30 pm local time in Rispergska Education CenterIt meets nearly 2000 students and provides lessons for adults studying for high school diploma, along with the classroom in the Swedish and professional language, according to the website, which is run by the Orebro municipality.
Broadcast mobile clips On local TV Stations Students who wander around offices and chairs, and others have been running from the building to emergency service vehicles. The authorities said late on Tuesday that the number of injured people is still unclear.
“I was eating with colleagues when, suddenly, many students came, saying that we have to leave,” said the director of the center, Engla Back Gustafsson, for Sweden General broadcaster, SVT. “When we were outside on the school yard, I heard a lot of nearby shots. We shouted,” running, running “. We ran to our lives.”
The authorities launched a “major operation”, with police vehicles that gather the campus, armed armed officers who leak from vehicles and officials who carry the campus, several schools in the region and even a restaurant while searching for the shooter.
The authorities said that police officers had achieved various headlines in the city. After several hours, the police evacuated the classroom at the center, allowing dozens of students and children to leave.
Mr. Forest said that the shooter was likely to be acting alone, and he was not associated with a gang and was not known to the police. But in a statement, the police also did not rule out the possibility that the shooter had worked with others.
The shooting was sent shock waves across the Scandinavian country.
“We have seen a brutal act of violence,” Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said in a televised speech. “This is the worst group shooting in Swedish history.”
Mr. Christmson also said in a statement On social media: “It is a very painful day for all Sweden. Being closed in a semester, for fear of your life, it is a nightmare that no one should be exposed to.”
The shootings are rare in Swedish schools, but the country has seen an increase in violent crime in recent years. The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention said this year that the murder rate has increased among the highest in the European Union.
While Sweden has strict weapons laws, with licenses usually limited to hunting rifles, crime scientists have linked a rise in shooting on illegal drug trade and firearm stocks that were smuggled from Balkan countries after the war, Eastern Europe and Turkey. Police say that gangs are also known as a groom and recruitment of children at the age of 11 years.
The record for the largest number of fire operations was set in 2022, with 391 episodes, Police numbers appear.
In 2022, a 18 -year -old student was killed as an ax, a knife, and a hammer of teachers in the southern city of Malmo. In 2015, Sweden was amazed when a 21 -year -old man was killed, armed with a sword, a teacher and student at a school in the southwestern part of the country.
The mass fire left on Tuesday the Swedish.
“We have not obtained these types of shootings in Sweden before,” said Anders Svan, a teacher at another school in Orbro, on Tuesday. “One touchs and is affected by this. I know the people who work there.”
Last year, the teachers and students at Mr. Safan Secondary School, which is also provided for adult education, have practiced training for the first time, he said.
“It is a risk that has increased, but it is not something that you think of every day,” he added.
The classrooms are unlikely to take place at the Risbergska Center on Wednesday, and it was not clear whether other schools in the region would be reopened.
Nooshi Dadgostar, the leader of the left opposition party, He said on social media: “The terrible news was shocked by Orebro. The violence that our country is going through is an abyss that we must find our way out of us.”
