According to the Swedish police, yesterday afternoon, shortly after 17.00 p.m., the police received a notification of injured people at a school in Malmö. When the police and an ambulance arrived at the scene, two injured people were found. The injured are two women in their fifties who were employed at the school. The injured were taken to hospital by ambulance, but their lives could not be saved. One person, an 18-year-old man, was arrested in connection with the incident. He is suspected of a murder. What is behind the incident and what the perpetrator's motives were is still unclear.
According to the preliminary findings of the services, the attacker was armed with a knife and an ax. After the crime was committed, he was to call the emergency number himself.
Serious incident at a school in Malmö
With great sadness we can say that two people lost their lives in this terrible event. Our thoughts go to their relatives and friends, says Petra Stenkula, Chief of Police in Malmö.
When the incident occurred in There were about 50 people at the school. In the evening, the school building was evacuated and searched. Currently, there is no indication that there are more perpetrators. Investigative activities were also carried out at the school and elsewhere.
- We were there early and managed to arrest the perpetrator. Now we have a lot of work to do to find out what happened there. We also want to understand what were the motives behind this terrible event, says Åsa Nilsson, chief of the local Malmö police.
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