{"id":232705,"date":"2025-02-05T23:30:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T23:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/05\/orebro-attack-mass-shooting-survivor-describes-moment-he-escaped-classroom\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T23:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T23:30:06","slug":"orebro-attack-mass-shooting-survivor-describes-moment-he-escaped-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/05\/orebro-attack-mass-shooting-survivor-describes-moment-he-escaped-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Orebro attack: Mass shooting survivor describes moment he escaped classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“I was in the classroom and someone suddenly came in. I saw him, I saw the shooter. As soon as he entered, he’d started shooting. Six, five times. So I started running.”<\/p>\n

We’re speaking with a man who survived when Rickard Andersson opened fire, killing 11 people<\/a><\/strong>, at an adult education centre in Sweden’s worst mass shooting.<\/p>\n

“I fell over and he started shooting towards me and I dropped my phone as I ran off and managed to escape,” the witness says.<\/p>\n

As he shares the visceral detail of his account, he becomes emotional as he describes losing friends before his eyes.<\/p>\n

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“It was very scary,” says the man, who asked not to be named.<\/p>\n

“I saw him shoot others. So I’m having a really, really tough time right now. I haven’t been able to sleep.”<\/p>\n

Orebro shooting: What we know about the attacker<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

He came back to the scene of the attack on Wednesday – where he used to go to lessons each day – and felt unable to comprehend how a place of safety became a place of terror in a matter of minutes.<\/p>\n

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The adult education centre in Orebro sits between two schools and many gathered at the police cordon the morning after the attack.<\/p>\n

We watched as children lit candles with their parents before starting their day. At the cordon clutching his brown briefcase we meet Marcus Ahltun.<\/p>\n

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He’s the headteacher at one of the schools and had been in his office when he heard the gunshots next door and made the rapid decision to lockdown the school.<\/p>\n

“I heard screams, and then I heard shots fired. I immediately decided that we needed to shelter in the school,” he told us.<\/p>\n

Being metres away from the atrocity he said was “a surreal, numb feeling”.<\/p>\n

Numb is how many have felt at the site today. Some came alone to pay their respects, some gathered in groups. We watched friends clutch and hold each other tightly.<\/p>\n

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Orebro is a university city and a young place with diverse communities.<\/p>\n

People in the city and throughout the country are both mourning the loss of the victims and asking themselves how a gunman was able to enter an educational facility and kill.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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