UPPSALA, Sweden — Swedish police said that three people are confirmed dead after a shooting Tuesday in Uppsala, a city near Stockholm, and are investigating the incident as a murder. Swedish media reported that a manhunt is underway for the perpetrator, who reportedly fled the scene on an electric scooter.

Several people are dead after a shooting near a school in Sweden today. Locals were starting to celebrate a major Spring festival when gunshots rang out in Uppsala’s Vaksala Square around 5pm local time. Then a man was seen fleeing on an electric scooter along Hjalmar Brantingsgatan, a road that leads to it.