Here is a timeline of the school shooting in Örebro.
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The alarm came in
+ 12.33, the police receive an alarm about a shooting at Campus Risbergska in Örebro.
A great effort with police, ambulance and emergency services comes to school. While the police are getting closer, rescue personnel are waiting for a safe distance. Information about a “suspected gross violent crime” reaches the media.
Among the first on site is a bus with police aspirants, the police newspaper writes later. You quickly get support from the intervention force from Stockholm.
The police are on site belongs to the ongoing gunfire – and the police are shot. When you later search the premises you will find the suspected shooter deceased, the police confirm the following day. It is believed that the perpetrator has shot himself.
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“Danger to life”
+ 13.20: “It is a danger to life,” reports the police, who have blocked off and urges the public to stay away from the Västhaga area.
A woman who works at a restaurant nearby tells TT that students and teachers have moved into the restaurant.
– They must not go out, but we keep them in here. It has become like a shelter. The students state that there has been a masked man who has entered school or has been to school, says the woman.
Parts of the school have been evacuated, other parts are housed. Even in other schools nearby, students are trapped.
– I have heard bangs, probably been gunfire, says one of the school’s principals to SvD.
+ 13.47: Police confirm that a shooting has taken place. Four are shot -damaged. Soon the figure is updated to five shot people.
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“The danger is not over”
+ 14.12: “The danger is not over. The public must stay away,” police say.
+14.19. “Inside the school it should not be ongoing anymore, but the danger is not over,” says Evelina Åström, press spokesman at the police. At the same time, TT reports that the perpetrator according to information has taken his life.
Press conference
+ 15:30: Police call for press conference: Five people have been taken to hospital. At the same time, testimonies of many dead media are achieved. Pictures of what is said to be victims circulate in social media.
+ About 15.50: The police and the national intervention force strike against what is believed to be the suspected offender’s residence in central Örebro.
+ 18.00: About ten people are dead after the shooting, police say at a new press conference. The suspected offender is one of the dead. The worst mass shooting in Swedish history is a fact.
+ 23:55: At least eleven people are dead, police say.
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