Sweden school shooting: Teacher posts lockdown message while sheltering with students

A schoolhouse is successful lockdown successful Orebro, Sweden, with constabulary confirming 5 radical person been changeable and students person been evacuated to adjacent buildings arsenic exigency services be the scene

A teacher astatine a school nether siege during a wide shooting texted "I emotion you" arsenic helium and pupils sought structure successful a room.

Police said that 5 radical were changeable at an big acquisition centre successful Sweden. The grade of their injuries wasn’t instantly clear. The shooting has taken spot successful Orebro astatine Rigberska School which is astir 125 miles westbound of Stockholm.

Students are being sheltered successful adjacent buildings aft parts of the schoolhouse were evacuated pursuing the violence. Police didn’t instantly accidental whether a fishy had been apprehended.

“The reports of unit successful Orebro are precise serious. The constabulary are connected tract and the cognition is successful afloat swing. The authorities is successful adjacent interaction with the police, and is intimately pursuing developments,” Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer told Swedish quality bureau TT.

A idiosyncratic who knows a teacher astatine the schoolhouse says that helium received a substance connection a portion ago. "He wrote that determination was shooting with automatic weapons astatine the schoolhouse and that they had taken structure successful a room. Then helium wrote that helium loved me," they stated.

While a witnesser reported proceeding "bangs, astir apt gunfire" arsenic helium confirmed immoderate parts of the schoolhouse person been evacuated. Students and teachers successful classrooms who could not flight person been placed into lockdown. The antheral told Sweden Herald: "I don't cognize everything. It's unclear. I'm inactive astatine the school. I've heard bangs, astir apt gunfire."

Hospitals successful the metropolis person been told to bare exigency rooms to hole for the accomplishment of those injured truthful far. Police person urged radical to enactment distant from the country arsenic determination is simply a "danger to life", according to constabulary spokesperson Sophia Jiglind.

She added: "There is simply a hazard oregon menace of deadly violence. The nationalist indispensable enactment distant from Vasthaga close now. We are connected tract with a batch of resources and are appealing to the nationalist that they indispensable enactment away. It is precise important."

She told reporters she "could not confirm" reports of a shooting. Local work Aftonbladet reported 4 ambulances are already connected site, with astatine slightest 2 much acceptable to arrive.

A pistillate moving astatine a edifice said respective teachers and students person taken structure astatine the diner. She added: "They're not allowed to leave, truthful we're keeping them successful here. It's go similar a shelter. The students accidental that determination was a masked antheral who went into the schoolhouse oregon was astatine the school. There are betwixt 30 and 40 radical here. The constabulary are connected the country and protecting us."