The king and queen visited the scene of the tragic event that occurred on Tuesday and Swedish flags were flown at half-mast to honor the victims.

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and King Carl XVI Gustav have led tributes to the victims of a deadly shooting at an adult school in the city of Orebro. A police investigation is underway.

Around 10 people were killed in a school shooting in Örebro. The damage at the crime scene was so extensive that investigators were unable to be more definitive, said Roberto Eid Forest, head of the local police.

Sweden’s prime minister said the attack at the Risbergska School was the worst mass shooting in country’s history

Around 10 people have been killed in a shooting at an adult education centre in Sweden, police say. More details are emerging of the attack, with the scene described as a "nightmare". Follow the latest.

Swedish police said they were still investigating the motive behind the country's deadliest mass shooting, as local media began reporting details about the gunman. The suspect, named in reports as 35-year-old local man Rickard Andersson,

Survivors of Sweden's worst mass shooting on Wednesday recalled trying to save the lives of their comrades at a school for adults in Orebro, a day after a gunman killed 11 people on what the prime minister called a "dark day" in the country's history.