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What We Know About Sweden’s Shooter Who Killed 11

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Orebro, Sweden:

The attacker accountable for the worst mass capturing in Swedish historical past was an unemployed man aged round 35, who had a looking license and is believed to have acted alone, Swedish media reported. A minimum of 11 individuals had been killed in Tuesday’s capturing at an grownup training centre in Orebro, 200 km (125 miles) west of Stockholm, police mentioned, including that the gunman was believed to be amongst these discovered useless.

Police have mentioned they imagine there was no ideological motive behind the assault. They haven’t but named the attacker however mentioned he was not recognized to them previous to the occasion and had by no means been convicted of any crime. In addition they mentioned he had no gang connection.

Sweden’s Minister of Justice Gunnar Strommer confirmed in a press convention on Tuesday that the attacker was a person.

Every day tabloid Aftonbladet, which spoke to kinfolk of the person believed to be the shooter, described him as a recluse who had restricted contact along with his household for years.

Swedish public broadcaster SVT, which didn’t cite its sources, mentioned the attacker, like many in Sweden, had a looking license. He was utilizing a looking weapon through the capturing, it added. The attacker lived in Orebro, it mentioned.

The college the place the assault was carried out teaches adults who didn’t full their formal training or did not get the grades required to amass the next training. It’s positioned on a campus that additionally homes colleges for youngsters.

A gang crime wave has highlighted the excessive incidence of unlawful weapons in Sweden. The nation has a excessive stage of gun possession by European requirements, primarily linked to looking, although it’s a lot decrease than in america.

(Apart from the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV workers and is revealed from a syndicated feed.)



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