Police have confirmed that 11 people have now died following a mass shooting at an adult education school in Sweden and the number of injured is currently unclear.

The king and queen visited the scene of the tragic event that occurred on Tuesday and Swedish flags were flown at half-mast to honor the victims.

Witnesses who survived Sweden’s worst mass shooting have described horror and panic that gripped an adult education center west of Stockholm as the gunman killed at least 10 people.

At least 10 people were killed in a school shooting in Sweden on Tuesday, with police officers confirming the suspected gunman also died after carrying out what is being described as the worst mass

MALMÖ, Sweden (OSV News) — Pope Francis said he was “deeply saddened” by the tragic shooting in a Swedish school, sending “assurance of his spiritual closeness to all affected by this traumatic incident,” in which 10 students of an adult education center lost their lives.

About 10 people including the gunman have been killed at an adult education center in what Sweden’s prime minister called the country’s “worst mass shooting.”

Police remained on the scene of an adult education center in Orebro, Sweden, where a deadly shooting left around 10 people dead on Tuesday, Feb. 4.

Sweden’s worst mass shooting has left at least 11 people dead including the gunman and five seriously wounded at an adult education center

By Johan Ahlander and Anna Ringstrom OREBRO, Sweden (Reuters) -Survivors of Sweden's worst mass shooting on Wednesday recalled trying to save the lives of their comrades at a school for adults in Orebro,

One day after the killings at an adult educational center, some gathered to lay flowers and come to grips with the violence.