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Speaking to the media during their visit to the Campus Risbergska, where 11 people died yesterday, Queen Sylvia expressed her devastation.

“Of course, we are thinking of family members and everyone who has died now and I wonder… what happened to the beautiful Sweden?” she said to reporters, according to Expressen.

“I have a great wish for all the Swedish people to help and build it up again. Strengthen Sweden’s good name and everything that means to be Swedish.

“That’s what I wish now. A lot has happened lately and it is my great wish and the King’s that we all together build up the fine Sweden that has been.”

Family members of potential victims waited outside the Orebro University Hospital overnight.

Ali Elmokad was looking for his relative, unsure whether he was among the injured or the dead.

“We’ve been trying to get hold of him all day, we haven’t been successful,” he said, adding that he had a friend who also attended the school.

“What she saw was so terrible. She only saw people lying on the floor, injured and blood everywhere.”

The King and Queen of Sweden have arrived in Örebro, to visit the site of Tuesday’s devastating shooting.

Carl XVI Gustaf and his wife, Queen Silvia, will later attend a memorial service in St. Nicolai Church in the centre of the city.

Sweden has been struggling with a wave of shootings and bombings caused by an endemic gang crime problem that has seen the country of 10 million people record by far the highest per capita rate of gun violence in the EU in recent years.

In one of the highest-profile crimes of the past decade, a 21-year-old masked assailant driven by racist motives killed a teaching assistant and a boy and wounded two others in 2015.

Football teams Degerfors IF and Orebro Syrianska will wear black armbands at a friendly match on Wednesday evening.

The teams will also hold a minute’s silence before the match to “honour the victims of the terrible attack in Örebro”, Degerfors IF announced.

“Our thoughts are with those affected and their families,” said the club, which plays in the highest tier of Swedish football.

Terrified students scrambled for cover under the desk and some even barricaded themselves in classrooms. The suspected perpetrator was later found with a gunshot wound, police said.

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Örebro Mosque opened for extra hours on Tuesday and Wednesday to support the the local community, Expressen reported.

“We open for the grieving and the worried. They have big questions that we can’t answer, but we can be there. Right now, all we can do is grieve, that’s all we can do at the moment,” the mosque’s chairman Yusuf Abdow told the Swedish outlet.

“People in the mosque, like all of Örebro, feel that it must not happen. That it is a nightmare. It is not just relatives, everyone is shaken.”

Swedish prime minister Ulf Kristersson and minister of justice Gunnar Strömmer will visit Örebro on Wednesday, according to Expressen.

It comes after the royal court confirmed that King Carl XVI Gustaf and his wife, Queen Silvia, will also visit the central Swedish city.

The royals will visit the area where the shooting took place, before attending a memorial service in St. Nicolai Church in the centre of the city.