Gety picturesA student at the Education Center in Central Sweden remembered how she and the others tried to help one of the victims of what might be the worst shooting of Sweden.
“A man was gone next to the shoulder. He was bleeding a lot. When I looked behind me, I saw three people on the ground bleeding,” Marwa, who gave her first name, told TV4 Sweden.
Eleven people died after an attack on Tuesday at the Rispergska School in Orbro, including the suspect. Police says the number of injured people is still unclear.
What is not yet known is the motive behind the attack, but the police said, “Everything indicates” that it was not ideological.
Mero said that she and another friend tried to help the injured person by wrapping a shawl around the man's shoulder “so that he would not bleed much.”
“Everyone was shocked.”
Teacher Lina Warnemark recalled about 10 gunshots near her studies, and told Swedish General Radio that she heard some explosions in a short sequence, followed by a short stop, then another few.
Mrs. Warnercated said that she was confined to her studies for more than an hour.
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson described the attack as “the worst mass shooting in Swedish history” and said it was difficult to understand what happened.
Police said they heard reports of the shooting at an adult education center in Orbro, 200 km (124 miles) west of the capital Stockholm, at 12:33 local time (11:44 GMT).
The facility sits on a campus of other schools. These centers are mainly attended by people who have not finished primary or high school.
The police earlier warned that the death toll could continue to rise as many people were injured.
Ali Mukad, a relative of a man who was believed to be studying at school at the time of the attack, was placed out of a local hospital waiting to hear his relatives.
“It doesn't look really good,” Mr. Mukad told Reuters. He said that his cousin also knows a person at school, and when she called her friend earlier, “she fell to the ground because she was crying a lot.”
“I thought what he saw was very terrible,” said Mr. Mukadad.
Such attacks are very rare in Sweden. While there was gunfire in schools in Sweden before, it was not that size.
Last September, there was a gunfire at the south of Stockholm, when a 15-year-old was suspected of having a classmate-class colleague, although this attack was linked to the Swedish problem of gang violence.
