#SHOOTING

Around 10 people have died in an attack on an adult education school in Sweden, authorities have said, with Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson describing it as the worst mass shooting in the nation’s history.

A politician has been shot dead at the parliament building of Abkhazia, a breakaway Georgian region backed by Russia, authorities said.

Scientists and hunters in Poland have called for invading raccoons from Germany to be shot and warn that the animals' numbers are increasing.

At least three staff members at a high school in Bosnia were killed when they were shot by a school employee, local police have reported.

A Greek border guard has been shot in the stomach while patrolling Greece’s northern border with Turkey.

A man shot two individuals to death before killing himself in a tragic incident in Lautlingen, a village in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, on Sunday.

Slovakian authorities have provided an update on the condition of Prime Minister Rober Fico describing it as “still serious” but “stable”.

The incident unfolded as the man and his 12-year-old son were making their way to a swimming pool in the Skarholmen district of Stockholm.

In a nation of 5.6 million people, there are more than 1.5 million licensed firearms and about 430,000 license holders.

The country’s FSB security service told President Vladimir Putin that 11 people had been detained following the shooting.