Örebro School Shooting was a man operation, police say | Sweden

The gun attack, which left 11 people died in the Swedish city of Örebro, was “an enmanns operation,” police have said when they worked to identify the victims of the country’s deadliest mass shooting.

The suspected gunman was among the dead, and six people were hospitalized after a shooting game entered Campus Risbergska, a school that specialized in adult education, right after 7 p.m. 12.30 on Tuesday.

Örebro police chief, Roberto Eid Forest, said at a press conference on Wednesday morning that police had not yet identified all the victims. He said there was strong evidence to suggest that the gunman shot himself.

“We still think it’s a one-man operation. We return to the exact motives, ”he said.

Police have said that there is nothing suggesting that the gunman acted for ideological reasons and that the suspect who has not been named had no known connection to criminal gangs.

The Prime Minister, Ulf Kristersson, said February 4th would “forever mark a dark day in Swedish history” when he urged the country to come together. He invited party leaders to a meeting with the Minister of Justice and the police and said the meeting would begin with a minute’s silence.

“Today, people have woken up to unimaginable sadness and pain. For those who have lost a loved one, life will never be the same again, ”he said. “We are a country in grief, and we must all come together – as a nation, as fellow human beings and as leaders of the parties in Rikdag. Together we must help the wounded and their families to carry grief and emphasis on this day. “

Eid Forest said the reason it took so long to inform the public about the death toll was the size of the school’s premises. “It took a very long time to seek and make sure we had no more injuries,” he said.

Jonas Claesson, the director of health and medical services for the Örebro region, said that five of the six people who were admitted to the hospital originally had life-threatening gunshot wounds and were now stable after undergoing an operation. Two of them were treated in intensive care. A sixth person had minor injuries. Four were women and two men.

Police called on anyone who was at school on Tuesday or had the recordings of the attack to arrive. They asked the public to share only confirmed information.

A meeting was held in central Örebro for relatives, where Eid Forest said they would be informed of “the continued work on, among other things, identification and how it will be done”.

Kristersson, his Minister of Justice, Gunnar Strömmer, and King Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia were to visit Örebro later on Wednesday.

Johanna Sollerman, who works in crime strategy in the municipality and is a crisis manager, said: “We will live with this as a brand for a very long time. But what we start to see is civil society with the municipality and the police who really gather for citizens in Örebro. “

She said they were in the process of establishing centers around the city where the victims’ families and members of the community could talk to social workers, members of the Red Cross and representatives of churches and mosques. They were also making decisions about memorials and a silence of memory.

She said that Campus Risbergska mostly ran education courses for adults, including for those who are taught Swedish, education in occupation such as nursing and studying to go to university. “The school is a society with different backgrounds,” she said.

Schools in the municipality had trained and practiced how to stop such an incident, she said, because it was known to be a potential risk. “For a couple of years we have now trained in how schools should act to stop a lonely actor. We’ve trained in it because we know it can happen. “

The municipality had taken a proactive approach to mapping criminals and gangs, she said, but “this kind of situation is very difficult for us to discover”.

She added: “We have taught it to practice it, but in fact it is unimaginable to review it. We would not believe in a million years that Örebro would be the scene for this tragedy. “