Swedish sword attack victim was 17-year-old girl, police say
Baku, August 23, AZERTAC
The victim of a deadly sword attack at a high school in central Sweden was a 17-year-old girl, BBC reported citing police.
The region went into a state of emergency on Friday, but it had ended by Saturday.
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.
Investigators have already carried out two house searches in connection with the suspect, police said.
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.
Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf said he received the news "with dismay and sadness".
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