Uppsala: Three people were killed during a shooting in the Swedish city of Uppsala on Tuesday and a murder investigation was launched, police said.
Police said that she was investigating the shooting as a homicide and that he had no information on the incident to be a terror or a crime of hatred at this stage.
“We have information that a person has left the scene on an electric scooter,” said a police spokesperson Reuters. “Whether this person is an author or a witness, or someone who has a link with the incident, he is not clear at the moment.”
Police said the victims had not yet been identified and refused to speculate on the grounds of 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 experienced numerous shots linked to gangs in the last decade, but generally outside the city center.
The Swedish Minister of Justice, Gunnar Strömmer, said that the Ministry of Justice was in close contact with the police and that he was closely monitoring developments in the case.
“An act of brutal violence occurred in the center of Uppsala … It is at the same time that all Uppsala began the night of Walpurgis. What happened is extremely serious,” said Strömmer in a statement.
The police said earlier that they had received calls from public members who heard shots in the city center, and that emergency services were rushed to the scene.
“Three people confirmed dead after a shooting … police investigate the incident as a homicide,” investigators said in a statement.
Witnesses told SVT that they had heard five shots and had seen people in the region to take cover. Several Swedish media, including TT, reported that the shooting had taken place near or in a hair salon.
Ten people were killed in February in the Swedish city of Örebro in the deadliest mass shootings in the country, in which a 35 -year -old solitary opened fire on students and teachers of an adult education center.
Sweden has suffered from a wave of gang -related violence for more than a decade which includes an epidemic of armed violence.
The right -wing minority government of the Nordic country came to power in 2022 on the promise to fight against violence linked to gangs. He tightened the laws and gave more powers to the police, and after the Örebro shooting, he said that he would seek to tighten the laws on firearms.
