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Key Points
- Swedish police are investigating the possible motives of an attacker who killed 11 people, including himself.
- The attack at an adult school in Orebro, Sweden is the country’s deadliest mass shooting.
- Police say the shooter was possibly a former student at the school.
Swedish police found three rifles near the body of the gunman, who they believe took his own life.
“After approximately one hour, the acute operation was over when the suspected perpetrator was found dead with several weapons near him,” Wiren said, adding that police had not opened fire during the incident.
Six people were admitted to a local hospital in the wake of the attack, five of whom required surgery for gunshot wounds. All were now in stable condition though two remained in intensive care, regional authorities said in a statement.
What could have motivated the attack?
Police said in a statement that there was information indicating that he had been a student at the school. “That is something we will have to look closer at,” Bergqvist told the press conference.
While police have yet to disclose the identities of the victims, Syria’s embassy in Stockholm wrote on Facebook that Syrian citizens were among the dead, without specifying how many. Bosnia’s foreign ministry said separately its embassy had been informed by relatives that one Bosnian citizen had been killed and another wounded in the attack.
