Witnesses remember the horror of the worst school shooting in Sweden

A student at the Education Center in downtown Sweden recalled how she and others tried to help one of the victims of what would turn out to be the worst school shooting in Sweden.

“A boy by my side was shot in the shoulder. I was bleeding a lot. When I looked behind me, I saw three people on the floor bleeding,” said Marwa, who only gave his first name, he told TV4 Sweden.

Eleven people died after Tuesday’s attack at Risbergska school in Obebro, including the alleged gunman. Police say that the number of those injured is still clear.

What is not yet known is the reason for the attack, but the police have said “everything indicates” that it was not ideological.

Marwa said she and another friend tried to help the injured person wrapping a chal around the man’s shoulder “not to bleed so much.”

“Everyone were very surprised.”

The teacher Lena Warenmark recalled having heard about 10 shots near her study, telling Swedish public radio that he heard some bangs shortly, followed by a brief pause, and then some more.

Warenmark said she was confined to her study for more than an hour.

Prime Minister Ulf Kristerson called the attack the “worst mass shooting in Swedish history” and said it was difficult to understand the magnitude of what happened.

Police said they heard reports of a shooting at an adult education center in Orebro, 200 km (124 miles) west of the Stockholm capital city, at 12:33 local time (11:44 GMT).

The installation is found in a home campus to other schools. These centers are mainly served by people who have not finished primary or secondary school.

The police warned that the death toll could continue to increase while several people had been injured.

Ali El Mokad, a relative of a man who believes he was studying at school at the time of the attack, had placed himself outside a local hospital waiting to listen in the condition of his relatives.

“It doesn’t really feel very good,” Mokad told the Reuters news agency. He said his cousin also knew someone at school, and when he called her friend before, “she fell to the ground because she was crying a lot.”

“He thought that what he saw was so terrible. He only saw people used on the floor, wounds and blood everywhere,” said Mokad, describing the scene that his cousin’s friend had witnessed.

Such attacks are very rare in Sweden. While there have been school shootings in Sweden before, they have not been of this magnitude.

Last September, there was a school that fired south of Stockholm, when it is suspected that a 15 -year -old boy has injured a classmate, although that attack was linked to the problem of the violence of Sweden gangs.