Two women have died after being stabbed at a high school in southern Sweden on Monday, according to police.
An 18-year-old student was arrested after he called the emergency services to say where he was and told them he had put down his weapon, reported local media.
The teen is said to have admitted over the phone that he had killed two people.
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In a statement after the attack at Malmo Latinskola, a secondary school in the centre of Malmo, the country’s third-largest city, the police said the women, aged in their 50s, were employees at the school.
According to local media, the attacker was armed with a knife and an axe. Police said the teen was arrested without difficulty shortly after the arrival of the police.
Students at the school, which has about 1,100 students, had gathered to work on a musical and students locked themselves inside classrooms.
Earlier in the evening, police initially reported two people were injured among the approximately 50 people in the school at the time of the incident.
The two victims “were taken to the hospital, but their lives could not be saved”, the authorities said.
“This is absolutely terrible,” the school principal Fredrik Hemmensjo told the Aftonbladet newspaper.
Footage of the horrific incident shows heavily equipped and armed police inspecting the interior of the building.
The attack took place in a new annexe of the school, which was founded in 1406.
The school was originally meant to educate local youth in Christian doctrine and Latin.
The school remained cordoned off for several hours after the incident as officers investigated the scene.
A number of police cars and ambulances also remained at the scene for some time.
After initial reports of screaming in the school, “we have had more information that pointed to a serious crime being committed and that violence was occurring in the school,” police spokesman Nils Norling told AFP.
“The first police patrol on site was able to arrive at the school and arrest a male suspect. They were also able to see that there were two injured people inside the school,” he said.
No motive has been established so far.
After extensively inspecting the scene and interviewing witnesses, the authorities are convinced the suspect acted alone, according to Guardian News and Media 2022.
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