Syrian refugees killed in Swedish gunman's attack on school

Syria's embassy to Stockholm says Syrians were among the 10 victims of a gunman who carried retired the worst shooting successful Swedish history, astatine a schoolhouse successful Orebro this week.

The suspected gunman, named locally arsenic 35-year-old Rickard Andersson, was killed successful the attack, but constabulary person not yet identified him and person not fixed a motive.

The embassy's announcement, connected its Facebook page, was the archetypal denotation of who was killed successful Tuesday's onslaught astatine Risbergska school.

It gave nary details of the fig of Syrians caught up successful the attack, but said: "We connection our sincere condolences and sympathies to the families of the victims, including beloved Syrian citizens, and to the affable Swedish people."

Anna Bergkvist, the caput of the constabulary investigation, told the BBC that constabulary could corroborate lone that radical of aggregate nationalities and ages were caught up successful the attack.

Salim Iskef, a 29-year-old Orthodox Christian who fled the warfare successful Syria successful 2015, has been named arsenic 1 of the 10 victims of the shooting.

Santa Maria religion successful Orebro said his beingness had ended tragically successful the attack. Swedish reports said helium had go a Swedish national and was owed to get joined successful June.

His aunt told Arabic-language website Alkompis that helium had made a video-call to his parent to accidental helium had been changeable and asked her to look aft his fiancée.

Two Bosnian citizens are besides among the victims, Bosnia's ambassador has told Swedish regular Expressen. One was wounded and different was missing, helium said. The Bosnian overseas ministry has expressed its condolences and spoken of Orebro's ample Bosnian community.

Police successful Orebro said the alarm was raised astatine 12:33 (11:33 GMT) connected Tuesday and aft astir 5 minutes the archetypal patrols had reached the school, which sits connected a ample acquisition field astir 200km (124km) westbound of Stockholm.

Regional constabulary main Lars Wiren told a quality league connected Thursday that 130 constabulary officers yet reached the school.

They faced what could lone beryllium described arsenic an "inferno" erstwhile they entered the schoolhouse buildings connected Tuesday, helium said: "Dead people, screams and smoke."

He spoke of a country of chaos, with radical moving wrong and extracurricular a precise ample schoolhouse that stretches retired implicit astir 17,000 sq m.

Wiren told the BBC that determination was nary grounds bombs had been detonated, but said determination was heavy fume that could person travel from the fishy mounting fires oregon fume grenades.

He said they believed the fishy had fired astatine constabulary but that officers did not occurrence back. The gunman was recovered dormant astatine the country implicit an hr later.

Police researcher Anna Bergkwist said that the fishy had killed himself.

She confirmed that 3 guns were recovered astatine the country adjacent to the gunman, of a full of 4 known to beryllium legally registered to the suspect.

However, she refused to remark connected the types of guns oregon ammunition used.

Police stay tight-lipped astir some the fishy and the imaginable motive down the attack.

Bergkwist explained that the hold successful naming the fishy was due to the fact that of the hold for DNA samples to beryllium matched.

Swedish constabulary are usually cautious astir naming suspects and would not usually bash truthful up of charges being laid, but Bergkwist said they expected to marque an objection successful this lawsuit and merchandise a sanction successful the coming days.

Risbergska schoolhouse provides big acquisition for radical aged implicit 20 who did not decorativeness superior oregon secondary school, arsenic good arsenic Swedish classes for immigrants.

Young residents successful Orebro had already expressed fears of a radical constituent to the shooting, and the Syrian connection confirmed that immigrants were among the victims.

A video broadcast by Sweden's TV4 was recorded during the weapon onslaught from a schoolhouse toilet successful which the words "away from Europe!" are heard.

It is not wide who shouted the words and constabulary person been cautious not to sermon a motive.

However, Bergkwist appeared to enactment backmost an aboriginal connection from authorities connected Tuesday that the motive for the onslaught was not ideological.

"Why they said that, I cannot comment," she said. "We are looking astatine antithetic motives, we volition state it erstwhile we person it."

Rickard Andersson has been described locally arsenic a recluse and 1 study by Swedish website Aftonbladet suggested his onslaught whitethorn person targeted section societal services.

A root told the tract that helium had argued with a societal idiosyncratic aft helium had mislaid his payment benefits due to the fact that helium had not done capable to find work.

Police said earlier that the fishy had nary erstwhile convictions, nary evident links to gangs and they did not judge the onslaught was motivated by terrorism.