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Sweden: Örebro Education Centre Shooting Leaves at Least 10 Dead

today5 February, 2025

Background

 

A shooting at an education centre in the city of Örebro in central Sweden has claimed the lives of at least ten people including the suspected gunman. Six people were injured. Police say there is currently no information indicating that the shooter acted based on ideological motives. Sweden’s prime minister Ulf Kristersson described the attack as a terrible act of violence and the worst mass shooting in the country’s history. Student Andreas Sundling recounted the terror inside his classroom to Sky News:

 

Written by: Leonard Witbeen