UPPSALA: Three people died in a shooting in the Swedish city of Uppsala on Tuesday and a murder investigation was launched, police said.
Police said he was investigating the shooting as a homicide and that he had no information about the incident that was a terror or hate crime at this time.
“We have information that a person left the scene in an electric scooter,” said a police spokesman Reuters. “Whether this person is a perpetrator or a witness, or someone who has a connection with the incident, is not clear at this time.”
Police said the victims were not identified yet and refused to speculate on the reason for the murders.
Electric scooters have been used several times as an escape mode after gang conflict shootings in Sweden. Uppsala, about 40 minutes north of the capital, Stockholm, by car, has seen many shootings related to gang in the last decade, but usually outside the city center.
Swedish justice, Gunnar Strömmer, said the Ministry of Justice was in close contact with the Police and that he was closely monitoring the developments in the case.
“There has been a brutal act of violence in the center of Uppsala … This is at the same time that the entire Uppsala has begun Walpurgis night. What has happened is extremely serious,” Strömmer said in a statement.
Police said they had previously received calls from public members who heard shots in the city center, and that emergency services had rushed to the scene.
“Three people are confirmed dead after a shooting … The police are investigating the incident as homicide,” the investigators said in a statement.
The witnesses told SVT that they had heard five shots and had seen people in the running area to marry. Several Swedish media, including TT, reported that the shooting took place near or in a hairdresser.
Ten people were killed in February in the Swedish city of Örebro in the most fatal mass shooting in the country, in which an unemployed 35 -year -old lonely opened fire against students and teachers in an adult education center.
Sweden has suffered a wave of violence related to gangs for more than a decade that has included an epidemic of armed violence.
The right -wing minority government of the Nordic country came to power in 2022 with a promise to address violence related to gang. He has squeezed the laws and has given more powers to the police, and after the Örebro shooting said he would try to harden the arms laws.
