‘Around 10’, including shooter, dead in Sweden campus attack

OREBRO, Sweden: Around 10 people were killed on Tuesday in a shooting at an education centre in Sweden, including the suspected gunman, police said after the rare gun attack on a campus in the Nordic nation.

Authorities had initially said that several people were wounded in the violence at Campus Risbergska, a secondary school for young adults in the town of Orebro, but had not reported any fatalities.

“Around 10 people have been killed today,” Orebro police chief Roberto Eid Forest told reporters, adding that police could “not be more specific” about the number. “The suspected assailant is not known to police.” He said police were not aware of a motive yet. Forest said police received the first reports of a school shooting at 12:33 pm (1133 GMT), but could not specify how it unfolded nor whether it occurred inside or outside the school.

Two Campus Risbergska teachers, Miriam Jarlevall and Patrik Soderman, told newspaper Dagens Nyheter 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,” they said.

“There were a lot of gunshots at first and then it was quiet for a half-hour and then it started again. We were lying under our desks, cowering.”

Some witnesses told Swedish media they heard what they believed to be automatic gunfire. Police said they believe the gunman acted alone. Swedish television channel TV4 meanwhile reported that police had raided the suspect´s home in Orebro late on Tuesday afternoon.