GOTHENBURG, Sweden
Two people were killed and eight others were injured in a restaurant shooting in Sweden’s second largest city of Gothenburg Wednesday night, Swedish police said Thursday.
The deceased were aged between 20 and 25, police said, adding that one of the injured had suffered life-threatening injuries, while two others were seriously injured.
Two attackers, wearing masks with skulls on them, reportedly entered a restaurant in Gothenburg between 10 and 11 p.m. local time, and opened indiscriminate fire on customers with automatic weapons, believed to be Kalashnikov assault rifles.
"What we say about this incident is that it is serious and conducted without any emotion or empathy for fellow human beings," Gothenburg police officer Klas Friberg told reporters Thursday. Friberg said an investigation was being carried out into the attack, which he confirmed, was gang-related violence.
