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Sweden, the once model society now plagued by guns

Gangs, anger over migration and the worst shooting in its history have turned a land of harmony into a tinderbox

Students scattered and found cover. Classrooms were barricaded and corridors became instant crime scenes. One woman used her shawl to try to stop a man next to her from bleeding to death. Another witness told a newspaper that he saw a “bloodbath … the sickest thing I’ve ever seen”.

On Tuesday, one police chief described the scene at Campus Risbergska, an adult education campus in Orebro in central Sweden, as resembling an “inferno”.

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