Several injured after sword attack at Swedish school
Police say one man has been arrested, while several other local schools have been locked down.
A sword attack at a high school in Fagersta, central Sweden, has resulted in several injuries, according to local authorities. One man has been arrested, and police are currently searching the building, while eight other schools have been placed under lockdown measures. The attack occurred just after 14:00 local time on Friday, and Sweden's Prime Minister, Ulf Kristersson, described the incident as serious, stating that police are working intensively to determine the motive behind the act.
The school in question, Brinell School, has approximately 500 students and is located 170km north-west of Stockholm. Sweden has experienced several attacks on educational institutions in recent years, including a mass shooting at an adult education center in Orebro in 2025, which resulted in the deaths of 11 people, including the gunman.
This incident led to the tightening of the country's gun laws. Additionally, two teachers were killed in a violent attack on a secondary school in Malmo in 2022, and a teacher and a pupil were killed in a sword attack at a school in Trollhattan in 2015.
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