What we know about Orebro school gun attack

Swedish police say 10 people have died in a shooting at an adult education centre in the city of Orebro. The suspected gunman also died.

It is the worst school shooting ever to happen in Sweden, where school violence is rare. The suspected gunman is among the dead.

Details are still emerging, but this is what we know so far:

Police first received reports of a shooting taking place in Orebro, a city 200km (124 miles) west of Stockholm, at 12:33 local time (11:33 GMT) on Tuesday.

The shooting was at Campus Risbergska – a type of school for adults known as Komvux in Swedish, which is primarily for people who did not finish primary or secondary education. There are other schools also on the campus.

Teachers have described hearing shots ring out, leading to them fleeing classrooms or barricading themselves inside.

Maria Pegado told Reuters she took all of her 15 students out into the hallway and they started running. “I saw people dragging injured out, first one, then another. I realised it was very serious,” she said.

Another teacher, Lena Warenmark, told public broadcaster SVT she was in her study when she heard gunshots: “There were a few shots first in short succession, a short pause and then a few more”.

Police locked down six schools and a restaurant in the area, and people were told to stay away or stay inside their homes.

Footage on social media also appeared to show students hiding under desks.

And a video filmed from a balcony also appeared to show the sound of shots fired in quick succession, as people rushed away:

Police said 11 people had died, including the suspected gunman, while the number of those injured remains unclear.

In a news conference on Tuesday afternoon, police said all of those who died were found inside the school building.

It is also still not clear how many people were wounded, but Sweden’s justice minister said at a news conference there were “many others injured”.

In the first few hours after the attack, there was confusion over the number of people hurt.

Despite media reports of casualties, when the police first gave an official briefing at 15:30 local time, they said only that five people had been injured.

Swedish media continued to report that several people had died, before police confirmed in an update at 23:55 that at least 11 people were dead.

Police said the attacker was a man who they believe had acted alone.

In an update at 00:39 on Wednesday, police said there was no information to suggest the perpetrator acted based on an ideological motive.

He was not known to police before the shooting and had no connection to a gang, said Roberto Eid Forest, Orebro’s local police chief.

Officers also do not believe there was a terror motive to the attack.

“We’re working with secret services but as far as I know, it’s a person unknown to police,” said Forest, when asked if the perpetrator lived in Orebro.

Forest added that he “can’t say anything about the kind of weapon” that was used “other than it was a firearm”.

Asked about reports the gunman shot himself, police said they did not have any information about that.

Police say they are still working to identify those killed and notifying the relatives.

They invited relatives to an event at 10:00 on Wednesday, where they will update them on what is known of the incident.

The school it happened at provided municipal adult education, which Sweden’s national agency for education explains is for people aged over 20 who did not finish primary or secondary school.

Teacher Ms Warenmark said there were unusually few students at the school on Tuesday as many had gone home for the day after sitting a national exam.

Very rare. While there have been school shootings in Sweden before, they have not been of this magnitude.

It is “the worst mass shooting in Sweden’s history” said Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, as he urged people not to speculate about the motive.

Last September, there was a school shooting south of Stockholm, when a 15-year-old is suspected to have wounded a classmate – although that attack was linked to Sweden’s problem of gang violence.