STOCKHOLM: Several people were killed and more wounded after at least one gunman armed with an automatic weapon opened fire in a pub in western Sweden late on Wednesday, police said, with the death toll expected to rise.

"There was a shooting in a pub. There have been several fatalities and a number of the injured have been brought to hospital," police spokeswoman Ulla Brehm told Agence France-Presse.

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