Gavin Grey: UK correspondent on the death toll from Swedish school shooting

A mass shooting in Sweden has left 11 dead, with many more still in hospital after the attack.

A gunman opened fire at an adult education centre in the city of Örebro, west of Stockholm - and police have yet to discover any links to gangs or organised crime.

UK correspondent Gavin Grey says the suspected assailant was among the dead, and investigations are still ongoing into a motive.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Devin Gray is a UK correspondents with US this evening.
Hi Gevin, Hi the Ron. Great to have you on.
Let's talk about this situation in Sweden. After the shooting,
Dith told the is Rising what led to this? Do
we know?

Speaker 2 (00:14):
No, we don't so at the moment, eleven have died.
Plenty more, sadly, are in hospital. We believe a couple
of them are critical. We don't know the motive. The
perpetrator is dead. The police say they think he acted alone.
They have no idea for the motive, as I said,
and they said he was not known to them beforehand.
So investigations continue at various addresses. It's thought they've gone

(00:38):
into addresses link to the perpetrator in Orabro, which is
roughly two hundred kilometers west of Stockholm, the capitol. But
the police saying that officers had been shot at, and
that was according to one report, police saying no officers
had not been shot at. Did the perpetrator kill himself
or was he killed? All these things still up in

(01:00):
the air. The one thing that we learn though is
although it's been called a school the Centrist for students
over the age of twenty, and it offers school courses
as well as Swedish classes for immigrants. Now, I don't
want to immediately jump to conclusions here, but we've seen
things similar.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
In other parts of Europe. I don't know if that's
the case here.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
They also do vacational training and programs for people with
intellectual disability, so it's a wide ranging educational establishment and
the police working on that motive.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Okay, interesting Kevin Centerini beautiful place, the Greek carl and
we all love it. But there hasn't been a big
earthquake the year, and yet people are being evacuated. Are
they still evacuating now? What's going on?

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:42):
They are, and that is because although there's not been
one big earthquake, there have been three hundred earthquakes in
one forty eight hour period round and that's why locals
are absolutely terrified. Frankly, six thousand people have left the
ferry By island. A couple of more, it's thought have
flown by plane. So roughly ten thousand residents, it's been estimated,

(02:06):
have left this relatively small island, and you know, just
that fear of what next. Santorini is a small island
population just fifteen thousand so it really is emptied out
because of the fears of this. Of course it does
welcome millions of tourists every year, but it is on
this what's called the Hellenic Volcanic Arc, a chain of

(02:27):
islands created by volcanoes.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
The last major eruption in their nineteen fifties.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
But huge concern about the frequency of these earthquakes, and
while as I said, none have been damage causing, there
are certainly concerns that they seem to be getting stronger
and if anything, more frequent.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Kevin, have you done your text return yet?

Speaker 3 (02:49):
I have? Do I get a big tick in the
box and a gold star?

Speaker 2 (02:52):
I am, however, among the majority, but you would be
amazed Ryan, how many people have failed. One point one
million people have missed the deadline for filing their annual
tax returns here in the UK. What does that mean, Well,
it means they'll automatically get a two hundred and twenty
New Zealand dollar fine for missing the cutoff period unless

(03:14):
they can provide a valid excuse for failing to file,
like in hospital et cetera, et cetera. But amazingly, thirty
one thousand left it to the final hour before the
deadline eleven point five million did complete it all on time,
but this could be a big money generator for the
government here with these people missing the deadlines, it's amazing.
I think it's just at an unfortunate time of year,

(03:36):
having to get it in before the.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Thirty first of January.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
These figures out now about who's missed it, but certainly
the charges and the fines can be pretty big, so
something you can't write off against a future tax return either.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Kevin, thank you for that. Great to have you on
as always, Kevin Gray, a UK correspondent.

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