Three people were killed during a shooting in the Swedish city of Uppsala, the police confirmed.
The shooting took place in a hair salon near Vaksala Square in the center of the city, local media reported. The shooter, who fled on a scooter, is still on the run, according to reports.
The agents completed a large area and an investigation into the murder is underway.
The incident occurred on the eve of the Walpurgis Spring Festival, which brings large crowds to the streets of Uppsala, a city north of the capital Stockholm, and known for its university.
“Everything happened so quickly. He just became Bang, Bang, Bang,” a witness to the Swedish channel TV4 said.
Another man said he was cooking at home when he heard “two fringes that looked a bit like fireworks” who were going on the street.
He said on Swedish television that he was “very surprised and frightened” and that shortly after “” police and ambulance swarms “began to block the street and tell people to come back.
A major effort is underway to find the shooter, with a police helicopter joining the excavation, said police spokesman Magnus Jansson Klarin on TV4.
The train services had been arrested in the region to prevent the attacker from using them to run away, said Klarin, but they have now taken over.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Justice Gunnar Strömmer told TV4 that an “brutal act of violence” had occurred.
The identity of the victims and the shooter are still not clear. But the past few years in Sweden, and the government has said that it wanted to tighten the country’s firearm laws.
In February, 10 people were killed in a shooting in an adult education center in the Swedish city of Orebro.
