Attacker Only 18
Sword attack in Sweden: High school student (17) dead!
Shock at a school in Fagersta, Sweden: A 17-year-old girl was killed and other teenagers were injured in a sword attack on Friday. The 18-year-old attacker is a former student at the school. He is known to authorities and is said to have glorified various school massacres.
Kronen Zeitung als bevorzugte Google-Quelle hinzufügen The girl was found after police entered the school, shot the attacker, and arrested him, said local police chief Tommy Alriksson at a press conference on Friday evening. The seriously injured are reported to be three boys.
One teenager has since been discharged from the hospital. Two boys between the ages of 12 and 17, one of whom required emergency surgery, remain hospitalized. Their condition is described as stable.
The suspected perpetrator was arrested immediately after the incident. He is known to the authorities and is said to have glorified various school massacres. According to “Tagesschau,” he is also said to have violently attacked a classmate years ago. The 18-year-old is in police custody. Nothing is yet known about the motive.
Horror and grief have gripped Fagersta. In this town of 12,000 residents, “everyone knows everyone.” The school year at Brinellskolan had only recently begun; hundreds of candles were lit on campus in memory of the victim. As recently as February 2025, eleven students were killed and others injured in a shooting rampage in Örebro.
At 2:00 p.m., the police received an emergency call reporting suspected “ongoing deadly violence” at Brinellskolan, a secondary school in Fagersta. The municipality reported that a person had entered the school with a sword and injured several people. At 2:16 p.m., the attacker was subdued by police.
Police Shot the Suspect in the Leg
The Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet reports that the suspected assailant was shot in the leg by police. The man was subsequently arrested. “We have admitted two seriously injured patients,” Jonas Cederberg, health director for the Västmanland region, told Swedish radio. Another person is on the way, but her condition is still unclear.
A student told Swedish television that he saw the attacker stab a classmate in the arm. “His whole arm was covered in blood; he said, ‘Call the police! Call the police!’” Police searched the building, interviewed witnesses, and conducted a forensic investigation. “We will also check to see if there are any camera recordings that might be helpful to the investigation,” a police spokesperson told the TT news agency.
All Available Personnel Sent to the School
According to Aftonbladet, the Swedish police’s national special forces unit was also at the scene. The unit was reportedly flown in from Stockholm on Friday afternoon around 3 p.m. According to media reports, the students who were still at the school after the incident were not allowed to leave the building for hours.
Concerned parents waited in the schoolyard; some were crying, according to the television station SVT. “People are anxious,” a woman whose daughter had to stay at school that afternoon told a reporter. The girl was very scared and not doing well.
“Terrible news”: Reactions to the attack
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson wrote in a text message to the TV station SVT that the motive behind the incident was not yet known, “but we know that the police are working very intensively.” Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer told Swedish television: “The government is in close contact with the police and is closely monitoring developments.”
The leader of the Swedish Social Democrats, Magdalena Andersson, also commented on the incident. On the platform X, she wrote: “Terrible news from Fagersta. My thoughts are with those affected and everyone touched by this.” She added that all of Sweden stands with Fagersta during this difficult time. According to reports, the school is a secondary school in the municipality of Fagersta with approximately 500 students.
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