Swedish police say 11 people dead in Örebro campus attack

Victims still being identified after what Sweden’s PM says was the worst mass shooting in the country’s history

Police have said 11 people have been killed and six others taken to hospital after a campus shooting in the southern Swedish city of Örebro, in what Sweden’s prime minister has described as the worst mass shooting in the country’s history.

The local police chief, Roberto Eid Forest, said investigating officers were still in the process of identifying victims but that they believed the “primary perpetrator”, not previously known to police, was among the dead.

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