[Trending News] Everything that is known about the shooting in Sweden that has left around eleven dead

05/02/2025

Updated at 15: 51h.

“It is the worst mass attack in Sweden's history,” said the country's prime minister, Ulf Kristerson. In the morning, a 35 -year -old man and unknown to the police, killed around eleven people and left several injured After entering an automatic weapon in an adult school in the city of Obebro, in the center of Sweden.

The event caused an intervention of all available services: from intelligence to firefighters; as well as the confinement of young people in classrooms of the school, the “emergency mode” activated in the University Hospital of Obebro to release beds and surgical areas or the cordoning of the area by the police.

Orebro police chief Roberto Eid Forest could not confirm the number of victims or ages, so it is only known that the attack has left around ten dead and several injured. “It's a Tragic event with many victims”He said, while insisted that the investigation continued.

“The work in the crime scene continues, among other things, with technical staff,” a spokesman confirmed at the last minute of this Tuesday. “At the moment, police opinion is that the author acted alone, but we cannot rule out that there are more complicit incident,” said Eid Fores.

A 35 -year -old man without a history

According to local media, the alleged author of the crime is a 35 -year -old who He shot himself During the attack and had a weapon license. Police, on the other hand, confirmed his death, said they did not know both their identity and their intentions and rejected, for the moment, any possible Terrorist motivation. In any case, they do not know the reasons for the attack.

A relative has told the Swedish newspaper 'Actonbladet' that in recent years the author of the attack has not had much contact with his family and only It was limited to “attending parties and other celebrations.” Eight years ago he changed his last name without giving explanations to anyone. The attacker had no job, he was very reserved and was going through a difficult time due to his mental health.

During the afternoon of Tuesday, the police were registering the author's house looking for signs about his possible motivation and continued to track the attack area. Records were also carried out in other Obro homes, related to “a series of investigation measures related to the case” and because the police had not ruled out the existence of an accomplice. The incident is being investigated as murder, murder attempt, caused fire and crime aggravated by weapons.

Six wounded transferred to the University Hospital of Obebro

After the shooting, the University Hospital of Obebro activated the “emergency mode” to release surgical areas, intensive care and nursing beds. Early they moved six people, five with gunshot wounds.

«Four people had to be operated, two of them are stable in the operating room and one is seriously injured», Explained Jonas Claesson, director of Health and Medical Services of the Orebro region. He also explained that the other two suffered minor injuries.

A little later, at 5:20 p.m. on Tuesday, the Obebro region reported that special medical management in the hospital ceased and that they returned to normal.

The King and Prime Minister of Sweden regret what happened

King Carlos Gustavo de Sweden described what happened as a “terrible atrocity.” “We send our condolences to the families and friends of the deceased, injured and others affected, in addition to expressing our great thanks to the police, the medical and rescue personnel who worked intensely to save and ensure lives on this dark day,” he lamented.

For his part, Prime Minister Kristersson, who described him as “the worst mass attack in Sweden's history,” and the head of Justice, Gunnar Strömmer, acknowledged that “it is very difficult to assimilate Of what happened today, it is dark ».

“Still Many answers are missing. I can't give them either. But there will come a time when we can tell you what reasons there may be behind everything that happened. At the moment, we prefer not to speculate, ”said Kristerson.