Two people were injured on Friday while shooting near the mosque in the Swedish city of Orebro, the police said in a statement and added that the case was investigated as an attempt to murder.
Both victims were taken to the hospital, police spokesman told Reuters. Refused to comment on the extent of their injury.
The public broadcaster of the SVT informed and quoted unidentified eyewitnesses that one person was shot shortly after leaving the mosque after Friday’s prayers. The police suspect that shooting could be associated with the activities of the criminal gang.
Emergency services were present on the scene, and the police urged the public to stay on.
“We are currently actively watching perpetrators or perpetrators,” police spokesman Anders Dahlman AFP said.
“We are talking with witnesses and doing our technical investigation,” he said.
According to the initial reports, the Swedish police confirmed that at least 2 people were injured and for the attacker. The shooting came to light after the calls concerning the incident came at 13:45 local time, Aftonbladet reported.
A similar incident:
On February 4, ten students and teachers were killed in Orebro shooting, about 200 km (125 miles) west of Stockholm, in what became the smallest attack of Sweden. The shooter was identified as 35 -year -old Rickard Andersson, who shot himself in front of the police who could arrest him.
This attack is considered an outdated 1994 shooting in Falun as the deadliest mass shooting in Sweden, when Mattias Flink, the second lieutenant in the army killed seven people.
According to the Global database, the Statista had the third highest number of murders involving firearms per 100,000 inhabitants in Europe in 2022, for Chernská and Alban, AFP reported.
Data from the Swedish National Crime Prevention Council show that while shooting has decreased since the top 2022, the number of explosions has increased.
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