The Swedish king, Carl XVI Gustaf, and Queen Silvia have visited a memorial near the scene of a mass shooting at an educational facility in Örebro.
The king told reporters that he and the queen were ‘extremely upset’ by what happened. He said: ‘We want them to feel that they are not alone in their mourning.’ The gun attack on Tuesday that left 11 people dead was ‘a one-man operation’, police said. Five of the six victims have required surgery for gunshot wounds and remain in a serious condition, regional authorities said.
Sweden has been struggling with a wave of shootings and bombings caused by endemic gang crime, which has led to the country having by far the highest per capita rate of gun violence in the EU in recent years
Örebro school shooting was one-man operation, police say
