One day after the killings at an adult educational center, some gathered to lay flowers and come to grips with the violence.

Swedish Police have confirmed they are not ruling out the possibility that the mass school shooting was racially motivated as it emerged that the 10 people killed are of multiple nationalities. When asked if they have ruled out the possibility the attack was racially motivated,

A gunman who killed 11 people, including himself, at an adult education centre in central Sweden may have been a student at the school, police said on Thursday, as they described chaotic scenes after the country's deadliest mass shooting as being like an "inferno".

The suspected gunman, who was among the dead, was named in media reports as Rickard Andersson, 35, a former student of the school who lived locally.

Officials in Sweden have vowed to determine why a man killed 10 people, and apparently himself, in an unprecedented attack that's shaken their "society to its core."

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.”

As many as 10 people have died in a shooting at a school in Sweden, police have confirmed. The deadly attack happened on Tuesday afternoon at Risbergska School, an adult education centre, in the city of Örebro, about 125 miles west of Stockholm.