Swedish police say school killing spree gunman likely shot himself

SWEDEN: Swedish police indicated Wednesday that a gunman who slaughtered 10 people at an adult education centre shot himself as the country mourned its worst mass killing.

Candles were lit and flowers were laid out in front of the cordoned off Campus Risbergska -- a school for young adults in Orebro -- as people passed by to pay their respect to the victims.

King Carl XVI Gustaf was to visit the town, the royal court announced as the country struggled to understand events.

Police did not immediately give details on the gunman or his motive. But they confirmed that 11 people, “including the killer”, had died in Tuesday´s shooting spree in the town west of Stockholm.

Asked about reports that the gunman turned his gun on himself, Orebro police chief Roberto Eid Forest told reporters that “there is a lot to indicate that”.

Forest told a press conference the suspect was dead when police reached him.

Police were working to establish the reason for the killing spree and had not seen an indication of an “ideological motive,” he added. The suspect was not previously known to police.