{"id":746928,"date":"2026-08-23T06:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T06:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/746928\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T06:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T06:52:09","slug":"swedish-sword-attack-victim-was-17-year-old-girl-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/746928\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish sword attack victim was 17-year-old girl, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 17-year-old girl was killed in the deadly sword attack at a high school in central Sweden on Friday, police have confirmed.<\/p>\n

Two boys aged 12 and 17 were also seriously injured in the attack at Brinell School in Fagersta, according to local authorities, while another person sustained minor injuries. <\/p>\n

An 18-year-old man was arrested but has not been identified. Police said they were treating the case as murder and attempted murder.<\/p>\n

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and opposition leader Magdalena Andersson visited the school, where flower tributes have been laid to honour the victims, on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

Students at the school had only just returned to the classroom following the summer break when the deadly attack<\/a> unfolded on Friday afternoon. <\/p>\n

The police later confirmed they fired shots after being called to the scene but did not say whether the alleged attacker was hit before he was detained.<\/p>\n

Sweden’s public broadcaster reported that the suspect was wearing a helmet. Local media also said he was a former student.<\/p>\n

The region went into a state of emergency on Friday, but it had ended by Saturday.<\/p>\n

The school has just under 500 students on its roster, according to SVT, and is located 170km (105 miles) north-west of the capital, Stockholm.<\/p>\n

Investigators have carried out two house searches in connection with the suspect, police said.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson described the attack as a “serious incident,” and said “we do not know what lies behind the act, but we know that police are working very intensively”, in a post on X.<\/p>\n

Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf said he received the news “with dismay and sadness”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 17-year-old girl was killed in the deadly sword attack at a high school in central Sweden on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-746928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}