{"id":231763,"date":"2025-02-04T18:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T18:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/sweden-shooting-at-least-10-killed-at-adult-education-center\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T18:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T18:34:11","slug":"sweden-shooting-at-least-10-killed-at-adult-education-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/sweden-shooting-at-least-10-killed-at-adult-education-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden Shooting: At Least 10 Killed at Adult Education Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/02\/04\/multimedia\/04sweden-new-fthp\/04sweden-new-fthp-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Sweden Shooting: At Least 10 Killed at Adult Education Center\" title=\"Sweden Shooting: At Least 10 Killed at Adult Education Center\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At least 10 people were killed and an unidentified number of others injured at a shooting at a center for adult education in central Sweden on Tuesday, the authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The police said they had started a \u201cmajor operation\u201d and locked down the campus in the city of Orebro, after shots were heard about 12:30 p.m. local time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is an awful, exceptional incident \u2014 a nightmare,\u201d said Roberto Eid Forest, head of the local police. \u201cWe do not think there is any terror motive behind this, but it is too early in the investigation to say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe think we have the perpetrator, but we are not ruling out anything,\u201d he added Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At a news conference earlier in the day, the police said they believed that the shooter was among the wounded, but did not offer further details on a motive or the person\u2019s identity. The shooter most likely acted alone and was not affiliated with a gang and was not known to the police, Mr. Forest said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe suspect one of the people in the hospital is the perpetrator,\u201d the police said in an earlier <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/polisen.se\/aktuellt\/handelser\/2025\/februari\/4\/04-februari-12.33-skottlossning-orebro\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a> posted online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Images in Swedish news outlets earlier in the day showed dozens of police cars surrounding the center\u2019s campus. The police locked down several other schools in the area as part of their response. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt is a very painful day for all of Sweden,\u201d the Swedish prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, said in a statement <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SwedishPM\/status\/1886793664099238005\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">on social media<\/a>. \u201cBeing locked in a classroom, fearing for your life, is a nightmare that no one should have to experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">School shootings are relatively rare in Sweden, but the country has seen <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/09\/10\/world\/europe\/sweden-election.html\" title=\"\">an increase in violent crime<\/a> in recent years. In 2022, an 18-year-old student <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/22\/world\/europe\/teachers-killed-malmo-sweden.html\" title=\"\">killed two teachers<\/a> in the southern city of Malmo. In 2015, Sweden was stunned when a 21-year-old man, armed with a sword, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/23\/world\/europe\/western-sweden-school-attack.html\" title=\"\">killed a teacher and a student<\/a> at a school in the southwestern part of the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cShocked by the terrible news from Orebro,\u201d Nooshi Dadgostar, the leader of the opposition Left Party, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/dadgostarnooshi\/status\/1886764856453292470\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said on social media<\/a>. \u201cThe violence our country is going through is an abyss we must find our way out of together.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/04\/world\/europe\/sweden-school-shooting.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 10 people were killed and an unidentified number of others injured at a shooting at a center for adult education in central Sweden on Tuesday, the authorities said. The police said they had started a \u201cmajor operation\u201d and locked down the campus in the city of Orebro, after shots were heard about 12:30 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/02\/04\/multimedia\/04sweden-new-fthp\/04sweden-new-fthp-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27474,12162,1652,1177,1566,1223],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231765,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231763\/revisions\/231765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}