Badly wounded, Salim Karim Iskef managed to video-call his fiancée to say he loved her one last time before he died in Sweden's deadliest mass shooting.

Sweden’s right-wing government said on Friday it would seek to tighten gun laws in the wake of the country’s deadliest mass shooting at an adult education center where the attacker appeared to have used several of his own licensed rifles.

The shooter targeted a center that serves migrants seeking to integrate into a country that had already reversed its liberal migration policies.

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.

Officials in Sweden have vowed to determine why a man killed 10 people, and apparently himself, in an unprecedented attack that's shaken their "society to its core."

Sweden's federal government is moving to enact stricter gun laws after a mass shooting that left 10 people dead, including the suspected gunman.

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.

The police responding to the attack encountered firing so intense that they struggled to tell how many gunmen were on the scene, an official said.

The 35-year-old lone gunman shot and killed 10 people before turning one of his weapons on himself. The mass shooting occurred against the backdrop of rapidly growing social inequality, the promotion of militarism and war fever,

A gunman who killed 11 people, including himself, at an adult education centre in central Sweden may have been a student at the school, police said on Thursday, as they described chaotic scenes after the country's deadliest mass shooting as being like an "inferno".