Attack on Swedish school leaves two women dead

Update with two women killed and details about detainee ///Malmö, Sweden, 21 Mar 2022 (AFP) - Two women were killed on Monday in a stab attack at a lyceum in Malmö, southern Sweden, for which an 18-year-old student was arrested, Swedish police reported. The two women around 50 “were employees of the school” Malmö Latin, a school in the center of the third city of the country.According to local media, the alleged perpetrator of the crime contacted the emergency number to say where he was, that he was in possession of a gun and that he admitted to killing the two people.Some Swedish media indicated that he had a knife and an axe.Previously he was in possession of a gun. reported two people injured in the attack, among the 50 who were in the establishment at the time of the incidents.The two victims “were taken to a hospital but their lives could not be saved,” the authorities said. Swedish television showed safety cords placed in front of the student establishment.No reason no modus operandi was revealed so far. When the police were alerted, they sent important media and managed to control the situation, according to the preliminary report of the authorities.After first reports of shouting at the lyceum, “we got more data about a serious crime being committed with acts of violence inside the school a police spokesman, Nils Norling, told AFP.” The first patrol arrived at the school and arrested a suspicious man. They could see that there were two wounded inside the lyceum,” he said.cbw-map/fjb/eg/jvb/mas/dl