STOCKHOLM: A person armed with a sword injured a number of individuals at a Swedish highschool on Friday (Aug 21) and one individual was later detained, native authorities mentioned.
The incident occurred on Friday afternoon on the Brinell highschool, which has some 450 college students aged 16 to twenty, in Fagersta, a city of some 13,000 inhabitants in central Sweden.
“We obtained an alarm at 2.06pm (8.06pm, Singapore time) about suspected lethal violence and despatched all obtainable sources to the college,” a police spokesperson advised Reuters.
The spokesperson mentioned one individual on the scene was later taken into custody and that there was not any hazard to the general public.
The varsity had simply opened after summer time recess and for some college students it marked the primary day on the senior highschool.
A number of different faculties and public buildings in Fagersta have been additionally positioned in lockdown after the sword assault befell.
Citing unnamed sources, the day by day Expressen mentioned police had shot the suspect within the case however Reuters couldn’t instantly verify the report.
The incident comes a 12 months after a college capturing in Orebro, additionally in central Sweden, when a gunman killed 10 individuals earlier than turning the weapon on himself, within the worst mass capturing in Swedish historical past.
The Swedish authorities is in shut contact with the police following Friday’s assault, Justice Minister Gunnar Strommer mentioned in an announcement to Reuters.
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson mentioned police have been working intensively on the case and requested everybody to allow them to and the emergency companies work undisturbed.
“Our ideas are with all these affected,” he wrote in a publish on social media X.
Social Democrat chief Magdalena Andersson, whose centre-left coalition holds a transparent lead in opinion polls forward of subsequent month’s parliamentary election, mentioned that “all of Sweden stands along with Fagersta at this troublesome time”.
