Victims of Swedish faculty taking pictures have been seven ladies and three males, police say

The victims of Sweden’s worst mass taking pictures have been seven ladies and three males aged between 28 and 68, police mentioned on Friday after finishing the identification course of.

They have been killed at an grownup schooling centre within the metropolis of Orebro on Tuesday, about 125 miles (200km) from Stockholm, in an assault that has despatched shockwaves by means of Sweden.

The entire victims lived in Orebro, however to date authorities have declined to share their identities or some other particulars about them.

Police additionally confirmed on Friday that the suspected gunman was a 35-year-old man from the world. He has been named extensively in Swedish media as Rickard Andersson.

Anna Bergkvist, the pinnacle of the police investigation, instructed the BBC on Thursday that Andersson had killed himself inside the college.

Police have confirmed that the suspect owned 4 rifles legally, three of which have been discovered inside the college after the assault alongside 10 empty magazines.

Sweden’s coalition authorities on Friday introduced plans to strengthen the nation’s legal guidelines, making it more durable to buy weapons and proscribing sure sorts of rifle.

Within the absence of official affirmation of the victims’ identities, info has come out as a substitute by means of their households and communities.

Amongst them was Salim Isker, a 29-year-old man who fled the battle in Syria in 2015 along with his mom and sister after his father was killed there.

Isker was finding out on the Risbergska centre, the place the assault occurred – a faculty well-liked with immigrants studying Swedish and different topics.

Isker’s fiancee Kareen Elia, 24, attended a memorial service in Orebro on Thursday evening alongside along with his mom and different members of his household.

Jacob Kasselia, the priest on the Syrian Orthodox church attended by Isker and his household, instructed the BBC he was a “merely a superb man”.

“He didn’t search for hassle. He confirmed solely goodwill. He was a member of our group,” Kasselia mentioned.

Bassam Al Sheleh, a 48-year-old baker and prepare dinner and father of two, has additionally been named by Swedish media as one of many victims of the assault.

He was reportedly finding out on the Risbergska centre to enhance his English.

A nationwide of Bosnia and Herzegovina was killed and one other was injured, the Bosnian overseas ministry mentioned, citing info shared by Orebro residents.

In a put up on social media on Friday, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson acknowledged that the occasion had triggered concern amongst immigrant communities, and urged individuals to “unite and stand behind all that we maintain expensive collectively”.

“My ideas are with the family members who’ve now acquired the decision that’s the worst one can get. To you, I need to say: you aren’t alone. We stand beside you,” he wrote.

The gunman’s motive stays unknown. Video filmed contained in the constructing throughout the assault and revealed by Swedish media appeared to file somebody utilizing anti-immigrant sentiments, however the footage has not been confirmed as correct by the authorities.

Members of Orebro’s Center Japanese immigrant communities have instructed the BBC they’re feeling susceptible and have been taking extra precautions within the days because the assault.

Sweden’s centre-right coalition, which depends on the help of the far-right Sweden Democrats celebration, mentioned on Friday it will search to extend vetting round gun purchases and ban sure sorts of weapon.

“There are particular sorts of weapons which are so harmful that they need to solely be possessed for civilian functions as an exception,” the federal government mentioned in a press release.

Prime Minister Kristersson, on a go to to Latvia, instructed reporters the federal government needed to “make sure that solely the proper individuals have weapons in Sweden”.

The Sweden Democrats mentioned that it agreed with proposals to amend the legislation, together with larger restrictions on entry to semi-automatic weapons.

“The horrific act of violence in Orebro raises a number of key questions on gun laws,” the celebration mentioned in a press release.

The AR-15, a specific model of semi-automatic rifle that’s each highly effective and may carry massive magazines, was singled out by the federal government for example of weapons that might be restricted.

Below present Swedish gun legal guidelines, anybody over 18 who doesn’t have a prison file can apply for a allow for a shotgun, handgun or semi-automatic rifle.

They need to justify to the police why they want a gun. Folks over 20 can apply for a particular dispensation to personal a totally computerized weapon.

Round 580,000 Swedes have a weapons licence out of a inhabitants of round 10.5 million, in line with figures from Swedish broadcaster SVT.

A 2017 Swiss research discovered there have been about 2.3 million weapons held by civilians in Sweden. That’s round 23 weapons per 100 individuals, in contrast with 29 in Norway and 120 per 100 within the US.

To acquire a searching licence in Sweden, a concept and sensible take a look at is required. About 280,000 Swedes have one.

Sweden has a comparatively excessive stage of gun possession and gun crime, by European requirements, although most weapons are legally owned and used for searching.

Gun crime is generally related to gangs, who’ve additionally taken to utilizing bombs to focus on each other.

Non-gang-related gun crime is much less frequent, and Tuesday’s assault the nation’s first faculty taking pictures and its worst mass taking pictures. A complete of 4 individuals have been killed in two separate faculty stabbings in 2015 and 2022.