Syrian and Bosnian embassies confirmed Thursday that people from their countries were among the ten people killed in Sweden's Tuesday Risbergska School shooting.

Police have provided information on the gunman who opened fire and killed 11 people at an adult education centre on Tuesday in the Swedish city of Örebro. View on euronews

Syrians and a Bosnian were among the 10 victims of a gunman who carried out the worst shooting in Swedish history, at a school in Orebro on Tuesday. It was the first information about those murdered in the attack, and it came from two embassies rather than police, who only said there were victims of a number of nationalities.

Swedish police say the shooter who killed 10 people in the country’s worst mass shooting was connected to the adult education center where he opened fire with at least one rifle-like weapon.

Police in Sweden said Tuesday that "about 10 people" were killed in a shooting earlier in the day at a school for adults in the city of Orebro, west of Stockholm.

Sweden on Wednesday mourned the victims of its worst mass killing as police indicated that the gunman likely shot himself after killing 10 people at an adult education centre. Candles were lit and flowers laid in front of the cordoned off Campus Risbergska school for young adults in Orebro as residents flocked to pay their respects.

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".

Syria's embassy to Stockholm says Syrians were among the 10 victims of a gunman who carried out the worst shooting in Swedish history, at a school in Orebro this week. The suspected gunman, named locally as 35-year-old Rickard Andersson,