Two women were killed on Monday in a stab attack at a high school in Malmö, southern Sweden, for which an 18-year-old student was arrested, Swedish police reported.
The two women aged around 50 “were employees of the school” Malmö Latin, a school in the center of the country's third city.
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 ax.
The suspect was arrested without difficulty after the arrival of the first patrol, according to the police count.
Two people were previously reported injured in the attack, among the 50 who were in the establishment at the time of the incident.
The two victims “were taken to a hospital but their lives could not be saved,” authorities said.
- Motivation -
Swedish television showed safety cords placed in front of the student establishment.
No motive or modus operandi has been revealed so far.
The police were alerted around 05H15 local (16H15 GMT) and the authorities displaced important media and managed to control the situation, according to the authorities' preliminary report.
After first reports of screaming at the high school, “we got more information about a serious crime being committed with 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.
After a thorough inspection of the site and interviewing witnesses, the authorities determined that the suspect had acted alone.
“Much work remains to be done to understand what happened and the motivation behind this appalling act,” said Asa Nilsson, one of those responsible for the investigation.
Sweden has little history of such attacks in schools.
In January, a 16-year-old boy was arrested after injuring a student and a teacher in the town of Kristianstad, also in southern Sweden.
The case was linked to a similar attack last August in the town of Eslov, 50 km away, when a student attacked a 45-year-old school employee.
So far, Malmö's case has not been linked to these previous attacks.
In October 2015, three people were killed in a racially motivated attack on a school in the western town of Trollhattan, where the attacker was shot dead by police.
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