STOCKHOLM — The sufferer of a deadly sword attack at a faculty in central Sweden was a 17-year-old woman, police stated Saturday.
An 18-year-old man armed with a sword carried out the assault on the Brinell Faculty in Fagersta, northwest of Stockholm, whereas lessons have been in session on Friday. One particular person was killed and three others have been wounded, two of them severely.
Police stated the suspect had been arrested and that the case was being investigated as homicide and tried homicide. The police stated they haven’t any motive to consider there have been extra perpetrators.
Vastmanland County, the place the city is situated, stated that the 2 critically injured boys have been ages 12 and 17. A 3rd particular person, additionally beneath 18, was barely injured and has been discharged from a hospital, Swedish information company TT reported.
The varsity principal advised native media P4 Västmanland on Saturday that the attacker was a scholar on the faculty.
The police stated they fired photographs throughout its motion on Friday however the attacker was not hit.
On Saturday morning, round 70 folks gathered on the memorial website that the municipality ready, carrying flowers and lighting candles, TT reported.
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, who visited the positioning on Saturday, expressed solidarity with the households affected by the assault and with these impacted by earlier faculty assaults in Sweden.
“What mustn’t ever occur has occurred once more,” Kristersson stated.
Kristersson was joined in Fagersta by Magdalena Andersson, chief of the primary opposition Social Democrats. With Sweden’s parliamentary election due in September, political events suspended marketing campaign occasions on Saturday. Kristersson additionally invited all get together leaders to a gathering to debate the progress of the investigation.
There was no official data on the attacker’s doable motive.
Sweden’s nationwide police stated that investigators have already carried out two home searches in reference to the suspect. Many witnesses have been anticipated to be interviewed as a part of the investigation.
The area went right into a state of emergency on Friday, but it surely had ended by Saturday.
Sweden has seen a sequence of violent faculty assaults through the years.
Final yr, 11 folks, together with the gunman, died after an attack at an schooling middle in Örebro in central Sweden, main the federal government to suggest more durable gun legal guidelines. It is thought of to be the worst mass taking pictures within the nation’s historical past.
In 2022, an 18-year-old man attacked two feminine academics with a knife and an ax in a faculty in Malmo, killing them.
In 2015, a 21-year-old native man rampaged by way of a faculty within the southern industrial metropolis of Trollhattan, stabbing three folks to loss of life earlier than being fatally shot by police. Authorities referred to as it a racist hate crime, saying he methodically chosen dark-skinned victims at Trollhattan’s Kronan faculty, the place most college students are foreign-born.
