Sweden school shooting: five people shot as police respond to threat of lethal attack in Orebro – latest updates

Responding to some early reporting in Swedish media, police authorities say no police officers were injured by gunfire during the operation.

• Five people have been injured, with four requiring hospitalisation, after an attack on an education campus in Örebro, Sweden, 200 km from Stockholm

• The country’s justice minister called the situation “very serious”

• Police press conference expected at 3:30pm local time (2:30pm GMT)

Local authorities of the Örebro Country say in a statement that four people have been admitted to hospitals in the area after the attack.

Their age or extent of their injuries are not currently known.

Swedish police will host a press conference about the attack at 15:30 local time (14:30 GMT).

The Left party leader Nooshi Dadgostar tweeted saying that her thoughts are with those affected, and stressing that the country needs to “find our way out” of violence.

Teresa Carvalho, of the Social Democrats, also expressed similar sentiment.

Swedish media are reporting that the local hospital is stepping up its emergency operations in anticipation of having to deal with people affected by the attack.

The latest police update stresses that the danger is “not over,” and tells people to stay away from the area of Vasthaga in the city of Örebro.

Swedish justice minister Gunnar Strömmer told SVT Örebro that the situation was “very serious,” and the response to the incident was still under way.

The Swedish government remains in close contact with the authorities, he said.

Swedish police are responding to an armed attack at a school in the city of Örebro, some 200 km west of Stockholm, with at least five people affected.