Eleven people have been killed and six others taken to hospital after Tuesday’s campus shooting in the southern Swedish city of Örebro, police said.
Prime minister Ulf Kristersson on Tuesday said the attack was the worst mass shooting in Swedish history, calling it a “painful day”, while king Carl XVI Gustav conveyed his condolences.
Police said the motive for the shooting at the Risbergska school in Örebro, some 200km (125 miles) west of Stockholm, was not immediately known.
They believe the suspected perpetrator, who was among the dead, acted alone.
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Swedish police said on Wednesday that “erroneous narratives” were being spread on social media regarding the mass shooting on Tuesday at an adult education centre.
“We want to be clear that based on investigative and intelligence information at present, there is no information pointing to the culprit acting on ideological motives,” police said in a brief statement on its website.
The gunman, whose property was raided on Tuesday night, had no known connections to gangs or terrorism and had not previously been known to police.
Of the six people in hospital, five have gunshot wounds – three women, two men, all adults – and one has other minor injuries.
Sweden has been struggling with a wave of shootings and bombings caused by an endemic gang crime problem that has seen the country of 10 million people record by far the highest per capita rate of gun violence in the EU in recent years.
However, fatal attacks at schools are rare.
Ten people were killed in seven incidents of deadly violence at schools between 2010 and 2022, according to the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention. – Agencies
