(6 Feb 2025)
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Örebro, Sweden – 6 February 2025
1. Wide of news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (Swedish) Lars Wiren, chief of police in Örebro:
"The police officers who arrived at the scene tell of what could be described as an inferno. Dead people, injured people, screams and smoke.”
3. Cutaway
4. SOUNDBITE (Swedish) Lars Wiren, chief of police in Örebro:
"Shortly thereafter, they reported smoke development when they perceived someone approaching and were then subjected to what they perceived as a shot, gunfire. They saw a perpetrator armed with a similar weapon. Just over 10 minutes after the alarm, the first response team arrived on the scene and enters the building. After that, a time-consuming search begun at the partially smoke-filled premises. After about an hour, the emergency operation was called off when the suspected perpetrator was found dead with several weapons nearby."
5. Cutaway
6. SOUNDBITE (Swedish) Lars Wiren, chief of police in Örebro:
“At the scene, we found about 10 empty magazines next to the deceased perpetrator, as well as a large amount of unused ammunition. Intense smoke development made it difficult to enter the school without special protective equipment. The situation was chaotic. Many people were running inside and outside the premises."
7. Wide of investigators
8. SOUNDBITE (Swedish) Anna Bergkvist, police investigation leader:
"What we can say is that there is information suggesting that he may somehow be connected to the school, that he may have attended this school previously. But that is also something we need to investigate further in order to confirm completely."
9. Mid of camera operators packing up equipment
STORYLINE:
The shooter who killed 10 people in Sweden’s worst mass shooting earlier this week was connected to the adult education center where he opened fire with at least one rifle-like weapon, law enforcement officials said Thursday.
Authorities said the gunman, who has not yet been officially identified, may have attended school there before Tuesday’s violence on the school campus west of Stockholm.
The shooter was later found dead with three guns and a large amount of unused ammunition next to his body, officials told a news conference.
The school, Campus Risbergska, offers primary and secondary educational classes for adults age 20 and older, Swedish-language classes for immigrants, vocational training, and programs for people with intellectual disabilities.
It is on the outskirts of Orebro, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) from Stockholm.
Some 130 officers arrived Tuesday after alarms summoned them to the school to find chaos across the campus. They described the scene as an “inferno.”
"Dead people, injured people, screams and smoke," local police chief Lars Wirén said during a news conference.
Officers found at least five people seriously injured, all over age 18. A sixth was treated for minor injuries and was stable.
Police were forced to search the large school — 17,000 square meters (182,986 square feet) — to ensure that there were no other casualties.
Authorities said the shooter had licenses for four weapons, three of which were found next to his body. Police have seized the fourth.
Investigators had not uncovered a definitive motive behind the bloodshed by Thursday.
Police said there were no warnings beforehand, and they believe the perpetrator acted alone.
Authorities said there were no suspected connections to terrorism at this point.
AP video shot by Aleks Furtula
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