By Anna Ringstrom and Essi Lehto
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Two people were injured on Friday in a shooting near a mosque in the Swedish city of Orebro, in what was likely a case of gang-related crime, police said.
Both victims were taken to hospital, a police spokesperson told Reuters. They declined to comment on the extent of their injuries.
Police said the case was being investigated as attempted murder and that they were seeking a suspect, although there were no immediate arrests.
Sweden has suffered a wave of gang-related violence for more than a decade, and investigators said the latest shooting could be a similar case.
“Based on the current situation regarding the shooting in Orebro, the incident is believed to be linked to the criminal network environment,” the police said in a statement without elaborating.
In February, 10 students and teachers were killed in a shooting in Orebro, some 200 km (125 miles) west of Stockholm, in what became Sweden’s deadliest gun attack.
The perpetrator in the February shooting was a former student who also killed himself, and was not associated with criminal gangs. Investigators found no clear motive in the case.
(Reporting by Anna Ringstrom in Stockholm and Essi Lehto in Hesinki, additional reporting by Johan Ahlander and Niklas Pollard, editing by Terje Solsvik, Toby Chopra and Clelia Oziel)
