Detectives are still trying to determine the motive of the gunman who killed at least ten people in Sweden’s worst mass shooting.
The suspect was found dead by police at the scene of Tuesday’s deadly attack at Campus Risbergska, in the western Swedish city of Orebro.
The gunman launched the attack shortly after 12:30pm local time (11:30am GMT) after many students had gone home following a national exam.
Students sheltered in nearby buildings, and other parts of the school were evacuated following the shooting.
Not all of the victims have been identified, and several people remain in hospital with gunshot wounds, police said in an update on Wednesday.
Officers found the suspect dead when they arrived at the school, but it is unclear how he died.
They believe the gunman acted alone, with no known links to terrorism, but they have not said if he was a student at the school. His motives remain unclear.
Police raided the suspect’s home after the shooting, but did not detail what they had found.
A survivor of Tuesday’s shooting, Andreas Sundling, 28, told ITV News he was attending a maths class when he heard gunshots.
He said: “Our class started at 12.30 today and about five minutes into the class we heard shooting from inside the school.
“At first we were a little bit confused and then we heard screaming. We then realised it was a shooting. We locked all doors and barricaded them with tables and chairs. We hid under the tables.”
He added that he sat in the classroom for hours, before seeing “four or five people walking with big guns” past the window.
“We thought ‘now we are all dead’ but then they smashed in the door. At that moment I thought ‘now we are dead’. But then it was the police.”
Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer called the shooting “an event that shakes our entire society to its core.”
“Today, we have witnessed brutal, deadly violence against completely innocent people,” Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson told reporters in Stockholm late Tuesday.
“This is the worst mass shooting in Swedish history. Many questions remain unanswered, and I cannot provide those answers either.
“But the time will come when we will know what happened, how it could occur, and what motives may have been behind it. Let us not speculate.”
Campus Risbergska offers primary and secondary educational classes for adults aged 20 and older, Swedish-language classes for immigrants, vocational training and programmes for people with learning disabilities.
While gun violence at Sweden’s schools is very rare, people have been wounded or killed with other weapons such as knives or axes in several incidents over recent years.
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