The Swedish police arrested a suspect on Wednesday, linked to the shooting that claimed the lives of three people and injured several others the previous night.
Suspect arrested after Uppsala shooting that killed three, injured several
Police stand guard at the area were three people were killed in a shooting yesterday, at Vaksala Square in central Uppsala, Sweden, Wednesday April 30, 2025
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The shooting took place on Tuesday night in Uppsala, a city near Stockholm. Police later launched a manhunt after the perpetrator fled the scene.
According to the police, they have not yet identified the motive of the attack and further indicated that the incident was not an act of terrorism or a hate attack.
However, according to the public broadcaster SVT, one of the deceased is a man who was under investigation for plotting an attack targeting a relative of gang leader Ismail Abdo.
Sweden has grappled with gang violence for years, with frequent shootings and bombings.
The mass shooting on February 4, 2025, at Campus Risbergska in Örebro, Sweden, profoundly impacted the immigrant community.
The attacker, Rickard Andersson, a 35-year-old Swedish national, killed ten individuals before taking his own life. Most victims were immigrants striving to build new lives in Sweden.