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Seventeen-year-old
girl killed in sword attack at school in Sweden
Three
other people wounded after 18-year-old man wielding sword assail students in
Fagersta school
Nadeem
Badshah
Sat 22
Aug 2026 19.11 BST
A
17-year-old girl has been killed after a teenager brandishing a sword attacked
students at a school in Sweden, police have confirmed.
Three
other people were wounded in the incident during classes in the central town of
Fagersta on Friday afternoon, including two boys aged 12 and 17 who sustained
minor injuries.
The third
person, who was also under 18, was also left with minor injuries and has been
discharged from hospital, Swedish news agency TT reported.
The
parents of the 17-year-old girl told local newspaper Fagersta-Posten their
daughter was killed in the attack.
An
18-year-old man has been arrested over the incident at Brinell high school.
Swedish
police are investigating whether the suspect was involved in online communities
promoting school violence, a police source said.
Detectives
are investigating whether a TikTok account that posted a picture of a sword 20
minutes before the attack belonged to the person responsible, the source told
Reuters.
The image
appeared to have been taken in a restroom at the school, according to the
Dagens Nyheter newspaper.
Before
the image was taken down on Friday, the month-old account contained videos that
referred to two episodes of mass violence in Sweden and to the far-right mass
murderer Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011.
One of
the videos referenced a 2015 attack in which a masked swordsman killed a
teaching assistant and two boys at a school in Trollhättan, western Sweden,
before being shot dead by police.
“The
investigators are looking into various online communities that may have egged
on the suspect to carry out the attack,” the police source said.
Several
party leaders cancelled planned speeches on Saturday, pausing campaigning ahead
of Sweden’s 13 September general election.
The prime
minister, Ulf Kristersson, and opposition leader Magdalena Andersson travelled
to Fagersta to offer condolences to the bereaved family and visit the injured.
Kristersson
told reporters: “What should never happen has happened again. Our thoughts go
first and foremost to the families who have been incredibly hard hit by this.”
Sweden’s
worst mass shooting occurred in February 2025 at a school in the south-central
city of Örebro, when a gunman killed 10 people before turning the weapon on
himself.
On
Saturday, the police clarified that the suspect in the Fagersta attack had not
been shot, contrary to what they had said on Friday.
“Service
weapons were used but the perpetrator has not been injured in connection with
the arrest, and has not been in need of medical attention,” a police
spokesperson told the Aftonbladet daily.
Prosecutors
ordered the man’s detention on suspicion of murder and several counts of
attempted murder.
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