More fatal shot in school attacks in Sweden’s Orebro

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At least 10 people were shot on Tuesday in an attack on a school for adults in Sweden, police said, but they refused to comment on local media reports that more people were killed, about what the prime minister called a painful day for the country.

Previous reports stated that five were killed with a sixth injured. Police said they thought the shooter was acting alone and was one of those killed.

It is believed that the gunman is among the wounded, and a search continues at the school for more possible victims, a police spokesman told a press conference. The motionman’s motive was not immediately known.

Police said in a statement that they had opened an investigation into murder attempts, arson and a worsening of weapons violation, and a spokesman told a news conference that officers had been met with smoke when they entered the crime.

“When it comes to saying something more about the perpetrator, it’s still very early. The operation is underway and it will undoubtedly be clearer. But we are working very intensively right now,” local police chief Roberto Eid Forest told journalists.

A police officer goes against a policy of the Risbergska School in Orebro, Sweden, on February 4, 2025 after reports of a serious violent crime. Five people were shot and wounded at a school in the central Swedish city of Orebro on Tuesday, police said (Credit: Kicki Nilsson/TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images)

Aftonbladet Daily and Broadcasters SVT and TV4, quoting anonymous sources, said “more people” were killed.

“It’s a very painful day for all of Sweden,” said Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristerssson at X.

“My thoughts are (also) with all those whose normal school day was transformed into fear. Being enclosed in a classroom that fears for your life is a nightmare that no one should have to experience.”

Shooting information

The shooting took place in Orebro, approx. 200 km (125 miles) west of Stockholm, at Risbergska School for adults who did not complete their formal education or failed to get the grades to continue to higher education. It is located on a campus that also houses schools for children.

Maria Pegado, 54, a teacher at the school, said someone threw the door up to her classroom right after the lunch break and shouted to everyone to get out.

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“I took all my 15 students out in the hallway and we started running,” she told Reuters by phone. “Then I heard two shots, but we came out. We were close to the school entrance.”

“I saw people pulling the wound out, first one, then another. I realized it was very serious, ”she said.

No police officers were injured in the shooting, police say. Ambulances, rescue services and police were on the scene, says a spokesman for local rescue services.

A spokesman for the hospital told Reuters that out of five patients admitted to Orebro University Hospital had a slight injury while four were operated on. Two of the latter were out of surgery and stable while having serious injuries. The spokesman said he had no information about the fourth person operated on.

Police said students were held indoors at the school that was targeted and at other schools nearby.

Sweden’s Justice Minister Gunnar Strommer told Reuters that the government was in close contact with the police and followed the development closely.

Sweden has struggled with a wave of shootings and bomb attacks caused by an endemic gang crime problem, although fatal attacks on schools are still rare.

Ten people were killed in seven incidents with deadly violence in schools between 2010 and 2022 according to the Swedish National Council of Prevention of Crime.

In one of the highest profiled such crimes in the last decade, a 21-year-old masked attack, driven by racist motifs, a teaching assistant and a boy, killed two others in 2015.