Sweden Around ten dead after shooting at Swedish school

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4.2.2025 - 18:50

dpatopbilder - Rescue workers work in front of Risbergska School in Örebro. Photo: Kicki Nilsson/TT News Agency/AP/dpa
dpatopbilder - Rescue workers work in front of Risbergska School in Örebro. Photo: Kicki Nilsson/TT News Agency/AP/dpa
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Around ten people have been killed by gunfire at a school in Örebro, Sweden, presumably including the suspected perpetrator. This was stated by a police spokesman at a press conference.

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Investigators are not currently assuming that this was an act of terrorism. The suspected perpetrator, who is presumably among the dead, was previously unknown to the police. He had no connection to a gang. The police assume that he acted alone.

Shots were fired at the Risbergska campus, an adult education facility, around midday. Principal Ingela Bäck Gustafsson said in an interview on SVT radio that she was on her lunch break when pupils shouted past her and told her to leave the school grounds. "When I was in the schoolyard, I heard gunshots very close by," Bäck Gustafsson said. "We ran for our lives," said the principal.

During the operation, which involved numerous police and emergency services, the pupils and teachers were sheltered in their own and neighboring schools and stores. People in the surrounding area were asked to stay away from the school.

"Painful day for the whole of Sweden"

Later in the afternoon, the police were deployed heavily armed at a residential address in Örebro, according to media reports. According to consistent reports, this could be the home of the alleged perpetrator.

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson wrote on X that it was a very painful day for the whole of Sweden. He was thinking of those affected and their families, as well as all those whose normal school day had been replaced by horror. Kristersson added: "No one should have to experience the nightmare of sitting in a classroom and fearing for their lives."