Syria's embassy to Stockholm says Syrians were among the 10 victims of a gunman who carried out the worst shooting in Swedish history, at a school in Orebro this week. The suspected gunman, named locally as 35-year-old Rickard Andersson,

Police have provided information on the gunman who opened fire and killed 11 people at an adult education centre on Tuesday in the Swedish city of Örebro. View on euronews

Police in Sweden said Tuesday that "about 10 people" were killed in a shooting earlier in the day at a school for adults in the city of Orebro, west of Stockholm.

The suspected gunman in a deadly school shooting in Sweden shot himself after killing 10 people on Tuesday, police believe. Armed police exchanged fire with an unnamed shooter at Risbergska School in Örebro, 125 miles west of Stockholm, in what Swedish prime minister Ulf Kristersson has described as the worst mass shooting in the country’s history.

Swedish police said the gunman in the country’s worst mass shooting was connected to the adult education center where he opened fire Tuesday, killing 10 other people

Police remained on the scene of an adult education center in Orebro, Sweden, where a deadly shooting left around 10 people dead on Tuesday, Feb. 4.

Andersson was said to be a recluse who had maintained little contact with his family for years before tragedy unfolded at Risbergska School in Orebro

Around 10 people were killed in a school shooting in Sweden on Tuesday, Swedish police said. (Reporting by Anna Ringstrom, Louise Rasmussen, Stine Jacobsen, Johan Ahlander, Simon Johnson and Niklas Pollard,