“He called me and said: “I’ve been shot, they shot us.’ He said he loves me and that’s the last thing I heard,” she said in an interview.
The government said a recent report had found that several of the requirements that should be taken into account when assessing a person’s suitability for a weapons permit were not clearly stated in weapons regulations, and that they should be set out in law.
Police have not said what type of weapon he used but they have said he had a licence to own four weapons – three of which were found beside him.
Police have yet to name the gunman, who apparently killed himself, or the victims, but have said that the victims included people of “multiple nationalities, different genders and different ages” and that they are investigating whether the shooting was racially motivated.
“We have to ensure that only the right people have guns in Sweden,” Ulf Kristersson, Sweden’s prime minister, said during a visit to Latvia.
