Swedish police detained a 16-year-old early on Wednesday on suspicion of murdering three people in a hair salon in the city of Uppsala, prosecutors said.

Swedish police say that three people are confirmed dead after a shooting in Uppsala, a city near Stockholm, and are investigating the incident as a murder.

Swedish police said a masked gunman carried out a shooting that killed three people. The motive of the shooting was as of yet unclear, with police investigating it as a homicide.