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

Swedish police investigate possible racist motive for school shooting

A man looks at tributes left to the victims of the shooting outside Campus Risbergska in Örebro.
A man looks at tributes left to the victims of the shooting outside Campus Risbergska in Örebro. Photograph: Kuba Stężycki/Reuters

Police in Sweden are investigating whether the country’s worst mass shooting was racially motivated after it emerged that people of several nationalities, including Syrians, were among the 11 killed by a lone gunman at an adult education centre on Tuesday.

Anna Bergqvist, who is leading the police investigation, said people of “multiple nationalities, different genders and different ages” were among those killed at Campus Risbergska, an adult education centre, in the city of Örebro on Tuesday.

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