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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent

Most victims in Swedish mass shooting had immigrant background, say police

People stand around a collection of candles placed on the ground in the shape of a heart
Candles being lit in Malmö last Friday to honour the victims of the Örebro campus shooting. Photograph: Johan Nilsson/Reuters

Most of the people killed by a gunman in the Swedish city of Örebro last week had an immigrant background, police have said, after the prime minister paid tribute to the victims as “people who wanted to do something good, who wanted to contribute to a better society”.

Among those understood to have been killed in Sweden’s deadliest mass shooting, which took place at an adult education centre on Tuesday, were two Syrian men, both refugees, an Eritrean woman, an Iranian woman and a female teacher from Kurdistan.

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