It is at 22:18 on Thursday evening that the police are alerted to a shooting at Mulligan's pub, an Irish pub, in central Sandviken. Four people have been hit by shots, two of whom have life-threatening injuries.

On Friday morning, the police announced that the two had died with life-threatening injuries.

- We suspect that it was one person who was the target of the shooting, and that three other people who were at the scene were also hit by shots, says police press spokesman Magnus Jansson Klarin to Samnytt.