Sweden to increase school security after mass-shooting, government says


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  • Wednesday, 12 Feb 2025

FILE PHOTO: People gather for a national minute of silence for the victims of the Risbergska School shooting that took place on February 4, at a memorial site in Orebro, Sweden, February 11, 2025. TT News Agency/Jessica Gow via REUTERS/File Photo

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - All Swedish schools and pre-schools will have to make plans to keep unauthorised people off their premises, the government said on Wednesday, as the country tries to come to terms with the worst school shooting in its history last week.

Ten people were shot dead at the Campus Risbergska school in Orebro, before the suspected perpetrator - identified by a Reuters source and Swedish media as Rickard Andersson, a 35-year-old Swedish recluse - turned a weapon on himself.

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