{"id":365898,"date":"2018-06-18T23:10:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T22:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/swedish-world-cup-fans-injured-after-gunman-opens-fire-on-crowd-at-malmo-cafe\/"},"modified":"2018-06-18T23:10:47","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T22:10:47","slug":"swedish-world-cup-fans-injured-after-gunman-opens-fire-on-crowd-at-malmo-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/swedish-world-cup-fans-injured-after-gunman-opens-fire-on-crowd-at-malmo-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish World Cup Fans Injured After Gunman Opens Fire on Crowd at Malm\u00f6 Caf\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>At least five World Cup fans have been shot after a gunman opened fire on a crowd watching football at a cafe in Malm\u00f6, Sweden, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>A shooter is said to have fired up to 20 bullets into the coffee shop which was screening the country&#8217;s win over South Korea earlier today, according to local media.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>????????Sweden: &#8216;Malmo shooting \u2013 Four people injured after gunman fires 20 shots into Swedish internet cafe&#8217;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/psIL0MTLVf\">https:\/\/t.co\/psIL0MTLVf<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Defend Europa (@DefendEvropa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DefendEvropa\/status\/1008806562713014272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 18, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Officials said the motive for the terrifying attack is unknown while the condition of those wounded is also not clear.<\/p>\n<p>There has been no confirmation as to what happened to the shooter although police have assured the public that there is no cause for further alarm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have sealed off the area and are conducting interviews and will interview those who are injured if they can or are willing to speak,&#8221; police spokesman Stephan Soderholm said.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0newspaper <em>Sydsvenskan<\/em>, three of those hurt have been seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures show multiple emergency vehicles and officers at the scene which has been cordoned off.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told newspaper <em>Aftonbladet<\/em> they heard what sounded like 15 to 20 shots at about 6.15pm local time in the city centre.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting took place next to a police station so officers were on the scene immediately, according to the news outlet.<\/p>\n<p>{snip}<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Comments<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/swedish-world-cup-fans-injured-after-gunman-opens-fire-on-crowd-at-malm%C3%B6-caf%C3%A9\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least five World Cup fans have been shot after a gunman opened fire on a crowd watching football at a cafe in Malm\u00f6, Sweden, according to reports. A shooter is said to have fired up to 20 bullets into the coffee shop which was screening the country&#8217;s win over South Korea earlier today, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-365898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}