Police say 5 people have been shot at a school in the Swedish city of Orebro, but they have not provided any information on the victims' conditions.

Five people were shot at an adult education center in southern Sweden on Tuesday afternoon with four being sent to local hospitals in what officials are calling "deadly violence" at the school.

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Five people were shot on Tuesday in an attack at a school for adults in Sweden, police said, but they declined to comment on local media reports that several people had been killed.