News - World: About 10 people have been killed in a school shooting in the central Swedish city of Orebro.

Local media said the attack was carried out on Tuesday at the campus of Risbergska School, a secondary school for adults.

The media reports said the shooter took his own life but Orebro’s chief of police Roberto Eid Forest said the suspect was one of the people who have been wounded and taken to the hospital.

Local media said police forces had been fired upon at the scene, but police said in a statement no officers had been wounded.

Forest said the operation is ongoing.

“We cannot rule out other suspects, and that is something we are continuing to work on in this intensive phase now – why it happened and if there are other possible suspects.”

The crime is being investigated as “attempted murder, arson and an aggravated weapons offence,” the police said.

Speaking to public broadcaster SVT, Justice Minister Gunnar Strommer said the reports were “very serious.”

“The government is in close contact with the police and is closely following developments.”

Several school attacks have taken place across Sweden in recent years.

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

Two months earlier, a 16-year-old was arrested after wounding a 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 assailant later killed by police.

Source: Press TV