Police probe school link in Sweden's worst mass shooting


Police officers stand near the Risbergska school, following a deadly shooting attack at the adult education center in Orebro, Sweden, February 5, 2025. REUTERS/Kuba Stezycki

OREBRO, Sweden (Reuters) -A gunman who killed 11 people, including himself, at an adult education centre in central Sweden may have been a student at the school, police said on Thursday, as they described chaotic scenes after the country's deadliest mass shooting as being like an "inferno".

Police believe the suspected killer - identified by a Reuters source and Swedish media as Rickard Andersson, a 35-year-old unemployed recluse - acted alone in Tuesday's attack on an educational campus in Orebro, about 200 km (125 miles) west of Stockholm.

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