To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. ‘About 10 people’ have been killed after a gunman opened fire at a school in Sweden. It’s thought around five people have also been injured in the rampage that unfolded shortly after 12.30pm local time at Risbergska School in the city of Örebro, 125 miles west of Stockholm.

Swedish police have now confirmed the gunman is among the dead, in what’s been called by the country’s prime minister ‘the worst mass shooting in the country’s history’. ‘This is currently seen as attempted murder, arson and aggravated weapons offence,’ they said in a statement, adding that the extent of the injuries of the five people who had been shot remained unclear. Swedish police have now said ‘about 10 people’ have been killed in the shooting, without providing more specific numbers or updating the number of people injured.

Local news service Aftonbladet said a local hospital was being prepared for an influx of patients, with the emergency room and intensive care unit currently being emptied for victims. ‘We are continuing to search the school and are focusing on security work – which we have done during the day as well,’ a police statement added earlier. ‘We housed students and staff at several schools because we did not really know the perpetrator or the perpetrators’ next steps.’.

Police stressed that they now no longer believe that there are more attacks in the works and have begun an evacuation. Contrary to what was reported earlier, no police officers were wounded in the operation. Students were sheltering in nearby buildings following an evacuation, as other parts of the school were also evacuated. Earlier, authorities said they are responding to ‘threats of deadly violence’.

An update later said: ‘An information point will be set up where relatives and others who have questions can gather. ‘People are again urged not to go to school or hospital. We will return to where the point will be located.’. Residents of the Västhaga area where Risbergska School is located have also been ordered to shelter inside and not leave their homes. Multiple police units and ambulances are already at the school, but more have been deployed since, suggesting a large-scale operation.

‘The reports of violence in Orebro are very serious,’ justice minister Gunnar Strömmer told Swedish news agency TT. ‘The police are on site and the operation is in full swing. The government is in close contact with the police, and is closely following developments.’. Daniel Helldén, spokesperson for the Green Party, said his thoughts go out to the students, staff and their relatives. He wrote on X: ‘It’s terrible what we’re getting from Örebro. My thoughts go out to everyone affected: students, staff, relatives.

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