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Students held indoors at education campus where shooting took place and police say ‘danger is not yet over’ | |
Five people have been shot in an attack in the southern Swedish city of Örebro, authorities have said, triggering a massive emergency response. | |
Police said the shooting, at a campus housing an adult education centre and other learning facilities, was being treated as “an attempted murder, arson and aggravated weapons offence”. | |
Authorities said students were being held indoors at the campus and in nearby secondary schools and they urged people to keep clear of the area. “The danger is not yet over. People must stay away,” local police said on their website. | |
It was not immediately clear whether the perpetrator was among the five shot. Police said no officers were hurt during the violence, which happened at about 12.30pm local time on Tuesday. | |
The county council said four people had been admitted to Örebro university hospital after what it described as “deadly violence at a school”. It gave no further information about their ages or the extent of their injuries. | |
The justice minister, Gunnar Strömmer, told the Swedish public broadcaster SVT: “The news of an attack at Örebro is very serious,” adding that the government was in close contact with police. | |
A teacher at the facility, Lena Warenmark, told the broadcaster she had been confined to her study for more that an hour after hearing “gunshots very close”. She said she heard “probably 10 shots” in total, with a short pause between two bursts. | |
Warenmark said there had been unusually few students present at the campus as many had just gone home after sitting an exam. | |
Andreas Sundling, 28, was among those who barricaded themselves inside the campus. “We heard three bangs and loud screams,” he told Expressen newspaper. “Now we’re sitting here waiting to be evacuated from the school. The information we have received is that we should sit and wait.” | |
Ambulances, rescue services and police were at the scene in the city, about 125 miles (200km) west of Stockholm. Police said they would hold a media conference at 3.30pm (2.30pm GMT). | |
Campus Risbergska, where the shooting is believed to have occurred, serves students mainly over the age of 20 but also offers primary and upper secondary school courses as well as classes in Swedish for immigrants, vocational training and programmes for people with disabilities. | |
School attacks are rare in Sweden but several serious incidents have taken place in recent years. In March 2022, an 18-year-old student stabbed two teachers to death at a high school in the southern city of Malmö. | |
Two months earlier, a 16-year-old was arrested after wounding another student and a teacher with a knife at a school in the small town of Kristianstad. | |
In October 2015, three people were killed in a racially motivated attack at a school in the western town of Trollhättan. The sword-wielding assailant was later killed by police. |