Three people were killed in a shooting in the Swedish city of Uppsala, and a murder investigation has been launched, police said.
Police said it was investigating the shooting as a homicide and that it had no information about the incident being a terror or hate crime at this point.
“We have information that a person left the scene on an electric scooter,” a police spokesperson told Reuters. “Whether this person is a perpetrator or a witness, or someone who has some connection to the incident, it is unclear at this time.”
Police said the victims had not yet been identified and declined to speculate on the motive for the killings.
Electric scooters have been used several times as a mode of escape after gang conflict shootings in Sweden. Uppsala, some 40 minutes north of the capital, Stockholm, by car, has seen many gang-related shootings in the past decade, but usually outside the city centre.
Swedish Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer said the Justice Ministry was in close contact with the police and that it was closely monitoring developments in the case.
“A brutal act of violence has occurred in central Uppsala … This is at the same time as the whole of Uppsala has begun Walpurgis Night. What has happened is extremely serious,” Strömmer said in a statement.
Ten people were killed in February in the Swedish city of Örebro in the country’s deadliest ever mass shooting, in which a 35-year-old unemployed loner opened fire on students and teachers at an adult education centre.
