Around 10 people killed in Orebro school campus attack

Police say around 10 people have been killed in a shooting at an education centre in central Sweden, including the suspected gunman.

Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson described Tuesday’s attack at Risbergska school in Orebro, 200km (124 miles) west of the capital city Stockholm, as the “worst mass shooting in Swedish history”.

Police said they believe the male perpetrator to be among the dead and that he was not previously known to them. There was no immediately identifiable motive and he was believed to be acting alone, they said.

“It is difficult to take in the magnitude of what has happened today,” Kristersson said at an evening news conference.

Earlier, students at several nearby schools were being kept indoors “for security purposes”.

“We don’t want members of the public to go there,” Orebro police chief Roberto Eid Forest warned.

The justice minister, who appeared alongside the prime minister on Tuesday evening, shared his condolences for those affected by the “tragedy” and reassured citizens that schools in the country would be safe to return to on Wednesday.