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BREAKING: Shooting reported outside mosque in Sweden
An unknown assailant opened fire at a person as he left Friday prayers at a mosque in Örebro, Sweden, on Friday, a witness has told Swedish television, with police confirming reports of gunshots.
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The witness told the broadcaster that the assailant pumped a barrage of shots into his victim as he left the mosque in Boglundsängen, to the west of the city, with the target left lying injured on the ground. The perpetrator is still at large.
"He was on his way out of the mosque, then another man came up and fired off four or five shots. Then he fired off more shots as he was lying on the slope," the witness told Sweden's public broadcaster SVT.
The local police said in a press statement at 2.35pm that they were investigating the shooting as an attempted murder, but said they could not yet comment on how seriously injured the two victims were.
Mazen Muwaffak, the treasurer of the Örebro mosque, confirmed that two people had been injured.
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"It happened right after Friday prayers," he told the Expressen newspaper. "We don't yet know if it was directed against the person or against the mosque."
Gabriel Henning, from the local Bergslagen police said that officers were now trying to track down the attacker. "That is part of the job, the other job is to secure the area and talk to the witnesses," he told the Expressen newspaper.
On February 4th, Örebro was the site of one of Sweden's worst-ever school shootings, when Rickard Andersson launched an attack at the Campus Risbergska adult education college. Andersson shot dead ten victims and injured six others before turning his gun on himself.
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