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Örebro in mourning after school shooting

Sobs are heard from all directions in S:t Nicolai church in Örebro. The city is in mourning after a dozen people were killed in a school shooting.

» Published: February 04 2025

Örebro in mourning after school shooting
Photo: Pontus Lundahl/TT

Mary-Anne Gustafson is a priest in the Nikolai congregation, and on Tuesday, she was in the church and was available to people who wanted to get support. The entire event is experienced by many as inexplicable.

It's feelings like: Why does this happen here? You don't understand, she says.

You get taken and wonder what's happening. Some kind of shock. And for some, it's come a bit close, maybe you've moved in that direction or you go to another school or you're a teacher somewhere else and such things. Then it gets closer in another way.

"Desperate"

The church has also been open at other locations and has staff at the hospital.

What feelings are stirring within you right now?

It's probably just some kind of meaninglessness that this gets to happen. It's clear that you get angry and you get desperate, says Mary-Anne Gustafson.

One who lives near the event is Pauline, who was home from school and had the windows open and heard sirens.

You hear it daily, it's not strange, but it was a bit too much. Then you get a bit worried and I felt that something wasn't right, she says.

"People panicked"

She saw helicopters on the scene and got a call from her brother, which made her find out that the shooting had taken place.

It's actually quite tough that it's so close to one's home.

16-year-old Linn Malmström is a newcomer in Västhaga, where the shooting occurred. She first went to school, which was blocked off.

Then I went to Hagakyrkan, where people had panicked. I talked to them, with parents and relatives.

She says she can't comprehend that it's happened.

This will probably stay with me for quite a while, says Linn Malmström.

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