Shooting in a teaching center in Örebro, Sweden, several victims

A shooter killed a “ten” people on Tuesday in an adult teaching center in the center of Sweden, the Prime Minister deploring the “worst killing” in the history of the Scandinavian country, in shock.
Schools were previously relatively spared by violence in Sweden before this shooting in the middle of the day in the city of Örebro, 200 km west of Stockholm.
“A dozen people are dead today” as well as the shooter, said Roberto Eid Forest, Örebro police chief on Tuesday evening without being able to give a number of injured. “It is a terrible event. It’s exceptional, it’s a nightmare. »»
“The author is not known to the police, he has no connection with any gang, we believe that there will be no other attacks,” he added.
According to media, the man turned the weapon against him.
This is “the worst mass killing” in the history of the country, said Prime Minister Ulf KrisSson at a press conference.
“Many questions remain unanswered,” he added.
The authorities did not give any element on the profile or the motivations of the killer and the circumstances of the killing still remained unclear on Tuesday evening.
According to the TV4 television channel, he was 35 years old and the police searched his home in Örebro at the end of the day. He had a port of weapon and a virgin criminal record, adds the chain.
Bodies lying on the ground
“I was in front of the training center” when I saw some bodies lying on the ground. I did not know if they were dead or injured, “Linn M., sixteen, told AFP, educated in a school near the place of the killing.
“There were blood everywhere, people panicked and cried, parents were worried … it was chaos,” she said, her voice trembling.
The alert was given around 12:30 pm local (6:30 a.m. in Quebec) around the targeted teaching center, the Risbergska campus, reserved for adults preparing the equivalent of the bac.
Two teachers from the Risbergska campus, Miriam Jarlevall and Patrik Soderman, told the newspaper Today’s News Having heard shots in a corridor.
“Students came to tell us that someone was shooting. Then we heard other shots in the corridor. We did not get out, we hid in our offices. ”
“There were a lot of shots at the start, then calm settled for half an hour, before it starts again. We were lying under our offices, curled up, ”they added.
Students in the teaching center and neighboring schools were confined for several hours before being gradually evacuated. Parents in shock awaited their children outside the cord at the end of the day.
“It’s crazy”
“It’s crazy, absolutely crazy. I’m angry, I’m shocked. It should not happen like this. Schools should be sure, both for adults and for children and young people, “CIA Sandell told AFP 42, a self -employed worker before recovering her children.
The king of Sweden Carl XVI Gustaf said that he had learned the news of the shooting with “sadness and dismay”.
Earlier the Prime Minister had deplored “a very painful day for all of Sweden”.
“My thoughts also go to all those whose normal school day has been replaced by horror. Being locked in a classroom, fearing for your life, is a nightmare that no one should have to live, “he said on X.
“In these dark hours, we hold alongside Sweden,” reacted the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, on X.
Some serious incidents have already taken place in recent years in schools in Sweden.
In March 2022, an 18 -year -old pupil stabbed two teachers in a high school in the city of Malmö in the south of the country.
Two months earlier, a 16 -year -old was arrested after having injured another student and a teacher with a knife in a school in the small town of Kristianstad.
In October 2015, three people were killed during a racist attack in a school in the city of Trollhättan, in the west of the country, by an assailant armed with a saber, who was then killed by police .
Sweden has known in recent years shootings and explosions of craft devices linked to rivalries between gangs and who kill dozens of people each year.