Nick Beake
Europe Correspondent
Reporting fromOrebro, Sweden
Ismail Moradi, 16, would usually beryllium carrying his textbooks into school.
But connected Wednesday helium was clutching a clump of reddish flowers to laic successful tribute to those murdered successful Sweden's worst ever wide shooting.
"I was shocked and didn't cognize if I wanted to travel to schoolhouse contiguous aft what happened truthful nearby" helium explains to us.
Ismail's ain simple schoolhouse is adjacent to the big learning centre that was targeted yesterday.
Although constabulary inactive person not fixed a motive for the attack, Ismail - who is Kurdish - says helium fears determination was a wide radical constituent to the shooting.
"In this school, it's lone newcomers to Sweden. There's not truthful galore Swedish people. So, I deliberation it was targeted for 1 peculiar radical of people."
All day, there's been a dependable procession of locals lighting candles and gazing crossed to the schoolhouse tract which remains sealed off.
Vacant faces successful the icy upwind bespeak the consciousness of daze that has gripped galore Swedes successful the past 24 hours.
A hush descended connected the country erstwhile Sweden's King arrived to permission his ain flowers. The solemnity echoing the nationalist temper arsenic flags alert astatine half-mast.
The corporate grief is analyzable by the deficiency of immoderate mentation for the assault. The police, present successful the midst of immense probe haven't fixed distant thing to that end.
Trying to physique a illustration of a "clean skin" - idiosyncratic not antecedently known to the constabulary oregon information work - makes immoderate probe each the much difficult.
But the standard of the nonaccomplishment of beingness means the nationalist and politicians privation answers from the constabulary now.
More than 100 specializer officers are involved, connected a local, determination and nationalist level.
Unconfirmed reports successful the Swedish media accidental the gunman was a 35-year-old section antheral who legally owned a gun.
Reham Attala, 21, is simply a instrumentality pupil besides thinks it was nary coincidence this assemblage – fashionable with immigrants - was chosen, alternatively than others which were reported to beryllium adjacent the suspect's home.
"I'm truthful bittersweet and scared" she tells america astatine the tract of the shooting. "This shouldn't person happened."
Reham explains that her dada is Syrian and her mum is Palestinian but for her Sweden is home. She's has lived successful Orebro for the past 11 years.
She is alarmed that the gunmen attacked a schoolhouse wherever Swedish for Immigrants (SFI) courses are known to beryllium taught.
"Those radical mislaid yesterday were studying Swedish and this marque maine deliberation astir my aboriginal and americium I adjacent going to unrecorded here, should I person children here? All these questions."
People should beryllium escaped to larn and unrecorded successful bid connected field without fearfulness of this happening, she sighs.