Witnesses recall horror of Sweden's worst school shooting

A pupil astatine the acquisition centre successful cardinal Sweden has recalled however she and others tried to assistance 1 of the victims of what would crook retired to beryllium the worst schoolhouse shooting ever to hap successful Sweden.

"A feline adjacent to maine was changeable successful the shoulder. He was bleeding a lot. When I looked down me, I saw 3 radical connected the level bleeding," Marwa, who lone gave her archetypal name, told TV4 Sweden.

Eleven radical died aft Tuesday's onslaught astatine Risbergska schoolhouse successful Orebro, including the suspected gunman. Police accidental the fig of those injured remains unclear.

What is besides not yet known is the motive for the attack, but constabulary person said "everything indicates" that it was not ideological.

Marwa said she and different person tried to assistance the injured idiosyncratic by wrapping a shawl astir the man's enarthrosis "so that helium wouldn't bleed truthful much".

"Everyone was truthful shocked."

Teacher Lena Warenmark recalled proceeding astir 10 gunshots adjacent to her study, telling Swedish nationalist vigor that she heard a fewer bangs successful abbreviated succession, followed by a abbreviated pause, and past a fewer more.

Ms Warenmark said she was confined to her survey for implicit an hour.

Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson called the onslaught the "worst wide shooting successful Swedish history" and said it was hard to grasp the magnitude of what happened.

Police said they heard reports of a shooting astatine an big acquisition centre successful Orebro, 200km (124 miles) westbound of the superior metropolis Stockholm, astatine 12:33 section clip (11:44 GMT).

The installation sits connected a field location to different schools. These centres are attended chiefly by radical who person not finished superior oregon secondary school.

Police earlier warned the decease toll could proceed to emergence arsenic respective radical had been injured.

Ali el Mokad, a comparative of a antheral who is believed to person been studying astatine the schoolhouse astatine the clip of the attack, had positioned himself extracurricular of a section infirmary waiting to perceive connected his relatives' condition.

"It doesn't consciousness precise bully actually," Mr Mokad told Reuters quality agency. He said that his relative besides knew idiosyncratic astatine the school, and erstwhile she called her person earlier, "she fell to the crushed due to the fact that she was crying truthful much".

"She thought what she saw was truthful terrible. She lone saw radical lying connected the floor, injured and humor everywhere," Mr Mokad said, describing the country his cousin's person had witnessed.

Such attacks are precise uncommon successful Sweden. While determination person been schoolhouse shootings successful Sweden before, they person not been of this magnitude.

Last September, determination was a schoolhouse shooting southbound of Stockholm, erstwhile a 15-year-old is suspected to person wounded a classmate - though that onslaught was linked to Sweden's occupation of pack violence.