About 10 people including the gunman have been killed at an adult education center in what Sweden’s prime minister called the country’s “worst mass shooting.”

Police said “around 10 people” were killed at a school on Tuesday, in what has been described as the worst mass shooting in Sweden’s history. The suspected perpetrator is among the dead.

Those are the words of Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, following what he described as the worst mass shooting in the country's history, with around 10 people killed. The shooting took place at an adult education centre - located on a campus with other schools - in the central city of Orebro at around 12:30 (11:30 GMT).

About 10 people, including the gunman, were killed on Tuesday at an adult education centre in what Sweden’s prime minister called the country’s worst mass shooting.

Around 10 people were killed in a school shooting in Sweden on Tuesday, Swedish police said. (Reporting by Anna Ringstrom, Louise Rasmussen, Stine Jacobsen, Johan Ahlander, Simon Johnson and Niklas Pollard,

Five people were shot on Tuesday in an attack at a school for adults in Sweden, triggering a massive response by rescue services, police said. "This is currently seen as attempted murder, arson and aggravated weapons offense,

At least 10 people were killed in a shooting at a school for adults in the city of Örebro in central Sweden, Swedish police said Tuesday.

Around 10 people were killed in a shooting at an adult education centre on Tuesday, Swedish police said, marking the country's deadliest gun attack in what the prime minister called a "painful day."