MALMO, Sweden: Police in Sweden have been Tuesday making an attempt to resolve why an 18-year-old pupil allegedly killed two lecturers at a highschool an afternoon previous in an assault that has shaken the rustic. The 2 sufferers, each girls of their 50s, have been lecturers at Malmo Latin, a big highschool in Sweden’s third-biggest town, police stated at a press convention on Tuesday.

Media experiences stated the suspect, whose title has no longer been disclosed, was once armed with a knife and an awl, despite the fact that police have no longer showed that data. Police leader Petra Stenkula stated police had seized “a number of guns that don’t seem to be firearms” on the scene. Investigators have been now seeking to resolve whether or not the suspect in particular targetted his sufferers or selected them at random, and whether or not he had deliberate to assault extra other folks. “We don’t know but if he had any connection to those staff”, Stenkula advised journalists.

The scholar “has no legal file”, she stated, including that police have been taking a look into his background and actions previous to the assault. Investigators have been on Tuesday looking the suspect’s house within the close by the city of Trelleborg, she added. Police have been alerted to the assault at 5:12 pm (1612 GMT) and a primary patrol was once ready to go into the varsity mins later. About 50 scholars and lecturers have been inside of on the time, and information photos confirmed closely provided and armed police analyzing the inner of the construction.

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The suspect was once arrested at the 1/3 ground simply 10 mins after the primary alert, striking up no resistance, Stenkula stated. His two sufferers have been mendacity at the ground close by, she added. The lecturers have been rushed to health center for remedy however their deaths have been introduced later within the night. In keeping with day-to-day Aftonbladet, the alleged attacker referred to as emergency products and services to mention the place he was once and that he had laid down his guns, and confessed to the killings. Swedish High Minister Magdalena Andersson on Tuesday expressed her “unhappiness” and “consternation” over the assault.

At the highschool, which was once closed on Tuesday, a fortify crew has been arrange for lecturers and scholars, native government stated. “Everyone seems to be deeply surprised. Devastated,” a trainer on the college who didn’t need to be recognized advised AFP on Tuesday. “It’s an terrible crime, it’s not possible to take all of it in”, she stated, status outdoor the varsity the place a gaggle of about 20 scholars stood hugging and crying, some with plant life to put down at the floor. Faculty assaults are reasonably uncommon in Sweden, which has in recent times grown extra familiar with shootings and bombings in underworld settlings of rankings that kill dozens of other folks each and every yr.

However a number of severe incidents have taken position at faculties in southern Sweden in fresh months. In January, a 16-year-old was once arrested after wounding any other pupil and a trainer with a knife at a college within the small the city of Kristianstad. That incident was once related to a equivalent knife assault in August 2021 within the the city of Eslov, about 50 kilometres (30 miles) away, when a pupil attacked a 45-year-old college worker. No hyperlink has been established between the ones two occasions and the Malmo assault. – AFP