The shooting erupted after many students had gone home following a national exam.
Swedish police said that about 10 people were killed during a shooting Tuesday at an adult education center.
Few other concrete details emerged from a news conference that included police and medical officials hours after the shooting on the outskirts of the city of Orebro, which is located about 200 kilometers west of Stockholm. Police would only say that the gunman was one of the people hospitalized after Tuesday’s shooting. Four of the five people who were shot underwent surgery, including one person who was seriously wounded. Two others were described as stable and another was considered slightly injured, Jonas Claesson, regional director of health and medical services, said during the news conference. Police said that no officers were shot.
Students sheltered in nearby buildings. Other parts of the school were evacuated following the shooting, which began at around 12:30 p.m. local time .“We heard three bangs and loud screams,” he told Expressen newspaper while sheltering in a classroom. “Now we’re sitting here waiting to be evacuated from the school. The information we have received is that we should sit and wait.”Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said that it was “a very painful day for all of Sweden,” Swedish media reported.
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