MOST VICTIMS OF SWEDISH SCHOOL ATTACK ARE OF MIGRANT ORIGINS

Tue 11 February 2025:

Swedish police said that eight out of ten people killed in the attack on a school in the city of Orebro are of migrant origins and the other two are Swedish citizens.

Stockholm police told Anadolu news agency that the perpetrator of the attack, Rickard Andersson, is a 35-year-old Swedish citizen, “suffered from psychological disorders.”

Orebro city police explained in a statement that the attack resulted in the deaths of ten people, including seven women and three men, and the attacker committed suicide.

The statement confirmed that eight of the dead are of immigrant origin, two of whom hold Syrian citizenship, and the others are from Eritrea, Iran, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq, in addition to two Swedish citizens.

On 4 February, an armed attack took place at Risbergska High School in Orebro, killing 11 people, including the perpetrator. Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson described the attack as “the worst mass shooting in Swedish history,” calling on the Swedish people to stand together and unite.

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In a statement on X, Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said his “thoughts are with those who have been affected and their relatives”.

“My thoughts are also with all those whose normal school day was replaced with terror,” he said. “Being confined to a classroom with fear for your own life is a nightmare that no one should have to experience.”

Speaking later to reporters, Kistersson called the attack “the worst mass shooting in Swedish history”.

Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf said he had received the news of the shooting with “sadness and dismay.”

“Tonight we send our condolences to the families and friends of the deceased. Our thoughts at this time are also with the injured and their families, as well as others affected,” the king said in a statement published by the palace.

The centre where the attack occurred is located 200km (125 miles) west of Stockholm, on the outskirts of Orebro.

Sweden has been struggling with a wave of shootings and bombings caused by an endemic gang crime problem but fatal attacks at schools are rare.

Ten people were killed in seven incidents of deadly violence at schools between 2010 and 2022, according to the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention.

While school attacks have been rare in Sweden, there have been several serious incidents in recent years.

In March 2022, an 18-year-old student fatally stabbed two teachers at a high school in the southern city of Malmo.

Two months earlier, a 16-year-old was arrested after wounding another student and a teacher with a knife at a school in the small town of Kristianstad.

In October 2015, three people were killed in a racially motivated attack at a school in the western town of Trollhattan by a sword-wielding attacker.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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