FILE PHOTO: Candles are placed at Gustav Adolfs torg to honor the victims of the school shooting in Orebro, in Malmo, Sweden February 07, 2025. TT News Agency/Johan Nilsson via REUTERS/File Photo
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Government offices, schools and workplaces fell silent in Sweden at midday on Tuesday in remembrance of the victims of a mass shooting at an adult education centre last week when a gunman killed 10 people before turning his weapon on himself.
Swedes, grown reluctantly accustomed to gangland bombings and shootings, were still stunned by the Feb. 4 attack, in which Rickard Andersson, a 35-year-old unemployed loner, opened fire on students and teachers at the Campus Risbergska school in the city of Orebro, some 200 km (125 miles) west of Stockholm.
