At least two dead after shooting at Hisingen – Aftonbladet

Gothenburg / STOCKHOLM. Several people have died after the shooting at Hisingen in Gothenburg.

Ten to fifteen people have also been injured, said police, who fear that the death toll could rise.

The shooting occurred inside a restaurant at a public square.

– The came in two people with Kalashnikovs and started shooting, said an eyewitness who sat at a table inside the restaurant.

Two men in the 20- to 25-year-old has died. 10 to 15 people are injured by bullets with varying injuries.

– It is obviously very serious this, says Ulla Brehm, spokesperson for the police Western Region.

The alarm came in at 22:23 on Wednesday evening . According to emergency calls as would several people have been injured in a shooting at Vårväderstorget in the residential Biskopsgården on Hisingen. It could later confirmed that two people had died and that a large number had shot injured inside a restaurant located at the square.

Police said the death toll could be expected to rise and that it “is currently in progress inventory of the injury situation at various hospitals in Gothenburg. “

Several people gathered

A witness tells Aftonbladet that two people came in with what looked like kalajsnikov rifle and started shooting.

– We sat and watched the game when the shooters came in, said the witness.

The police are on site with very many devices.

– We are at the crime scene and keeps questioning . We have already held some hearings and started knocking on doors in the area. But it is still a very initial stage and we have yet not the whole picture, says Ulla Brehm.

She believes that there are indications that the shooting is gang-related. The police can also confirm that it will be a case of automatic weapons were used.

According to a witness who talked to Expressen, four people ran toward a car near the tavern, just after the shooting. The car sat a person.

– One of them had a large knife and a person who was sitting in the car were attacked, said the witness.

Police headlining the event as murder and attempted murder.

Neither car or suspected gärningmän is even anträffade.

– But we have several taken in for questioning, said Lars Tune Fjord, assistant duty officer at the police Western Region, at 05:45 on Thursday morning .

According to the TT has between five and ten people taken in for questioning.

Various findings should have been secured at the crime scene.

Scouts in the area

According to Aftonbladet reporter on the scene, Marcus Wulcan, it was just after 23:30 is still a very big go-around at Vårväderstorget.

– There are at least 20 police cars here. It has been cordoned off, but right calmly. Police will begin knocking on doors in the area now.

SOS Alarm sent initially ten ambulances to the scene. Eight injured people were running to the Sahlgrenska and Östra Hospital. At both hospitals were gathered many people and the atmosphere was upset.

At the end of January this year, shot a man with several shots in the leg outside a restaurant at Vårväderstorget. The man was shot in the right leg.

“Large pull”

The residents of the area who wishes to remain anonymous says:

– You become afraid. Things are happening here almost every day but this seems to be something special. There were lots of ambulances and police helicopters. They want to move from here. It’s a bitch.

According to a woman who lives right next Vårväderstorget stood several ambulances at the square as she passed.

– I just came by wagon and saw a big pull. They have cordoned off the entire square. There is a small plaza with a grocery store, a local tavern and some newsagents.

The woman says that the square is located on a quiet part of Hisingen.

– I have lived here for a year and it has been an occasional gunfire, but never anything serious. It’s the gangs that hold on, but not here without further into the Bishop’s Palace. This is actually the quiet area, she said.

Despite the shooting, she is not worried about his own safety.

– It’s all about gangs, so I’m not worried about it to happen to me. But are they as they make will of course someone innocent to be shot any day.

Several international media have drawn attention to the fatal shooting, including the BBC, CNN and Al-Jazeera.

The text is updated