The group shooting site in Sweden was essential in a diverse society

On a typical day, the RISBERGSKA Educational Center in Orebro, Sweden will outperform students who are gathering to attend construction classes, child care and Swedish language teaching for immigrants.

Wednesday, a day after a Group fire He left at least 11 people And shock waves were sent throughout Sweden, the school was empty as the community tried to reconcile with violence. Some are still waiting for the news of the fate of their loved ones; Police The identities of the victims, or the shooter, were not released.

“These people who were killed here yesterday, they have dreams to become doctors, nurses, engineers, plumber, or anything else,” said Shams Olkar Est, who was standing outside the campus where he spent four years in Swedish learning.

A university town with a fortress of the thirteenth century, the population of Urebro is 160,000 people. In recent years, the home of migrants has become 165 countries, According to the municipality website.

Those who gathered there on Wednesday said that the RISBERGSKA Educational Center, which meets nearly 2000 adult students and provides professional lessons and lessons for adults studying for high school diploma, has become a major resource for newly arrived immigrants.

Mr. Andesh, 42, moved to Sweden from Afghanistan in 2012. His time in the educational center helped him get a job as a truck driver for national postal service, and his wife became a nurse after attending there.

He said, “It was my school.”

Mr. Andach was among a handful of former population and students who put flowers and candles on the sidewalk or stare in the building that is now located in the center of what Swedish leaders described as the worst mass shooting in the country’s history.

The police cordoned off the campus with a blue and white tape to keep the public away from what is now the crime scene under investigation, and many officers were standing around the yellow brick building.

Mr. Andesh said that a friend of the close family had been transferred to a nearby hospital after he was shot in the attack. “We are waiting to hear from her doctor what is happening after that,” he said.

Helen Warme, 35, said that she was in the nursing category learning how to enter a catheter when I heard the first shot – and I initially thought it was “just a shouting door.”

She said on Wednesday: “After a few seconds, we heard two other shots, then more and more.” “Then we understood that this was not a door, but rather a shooting.”

She said that the teacher shouted to lock the door and hide. Adult students gather under offices and hospital beds used for training; The lady said that they were there for more than two hours, and they cry and relax each other.

She remembers, “Either we shoot or someone will come and save us.” When they hid, the lady said, her thoughts moved between her young children and her colleagues who became like the family.

On Wednesday, six of her classmates were still missing. The lady, who did not suffer, returned to school to find out what happened.

“We must find our friends,” she said outside the building.

Ibn Catherine and Lars Panck, who suffers from Down syndrome, takes lessons in private education at school and are scheduled to attend an English class on the campus on Tuesday, but it was canceled before the attack. Their older son had attended the school when it was a high school.

“It is tragic,” said Mrs. Bank, 72, a Boston citizen, is putting a candle out of school. “It is like the United States” completely “

Since Sweden faces one of the highest rates of individual violence in the European Union, Orebro has also witnessed an increase in this as well – along with the general debate that pushed it in Sweden.

“You only do not expect this Sweden that you used to be,” said Vladimir Serda, a father of three children who live in a suburb of Orbro. “It will not take a long time before we have metal detectors and security guards in schools in Sweden.”

Rolf Lidskog, who is studying sociology at the University of Orbro, said in an interview over the phone that in more than 40 years he lives there, watching the city – which is 120 miles to the west of Stockholm – to become more richer and more diverse, but also more unequal And detailed.

Mr. Lidskog said that the city’s residents have also become more open to the tougher and security measures.

The authorities did not specify the attacker’s motive, but Mr. Lidskog said he felt some relief after police reports indicated that the attacker was likely a single wolf and not part of a gang – a sign that deadly violence may be an isolated link.

He said, “Maybe it can just be a very sad memory,” he said.