Posted Sat 22 Aug 2026 at 1:38amSat 22 Aug 2026 at 1:38am, updated Sat 22 Aug 2026 at 5:21amSat 22 Aug 2026 at 5:21amThe scene outside Brinellskolan after a man with a sword allegedly injured several people at the school. (TT News Agency: Fredrik Sandberg via AFP)In short: One person has died and several people have sustained injuries after a man wielding a sword targeted a school in Sweden's Fagersta. Two teenagers were taken to hospital with serious injuries, local authorities said. Police have said a suspect is in custody. One person has died and several others injured after a man armed with a sword targeted a high school in central Sweden.At least two people have sustained serious injuries, according to emergency services.After 2.20pm, local time, reports came through of an attack at Brinellskolan school in the municipality of Fagersta.The local government said a person entered the school with a sword and injured several people.Police said they had one person in custody and were investigating the incident."A call was received regarding a case of ongoing deadly violence at a school in Fagersta," police said in a statement.The high school has about 450 students aged between 16 and 20.Fagersta has a population of about 13,000 people and is located roughly 170 kilometres north-west of Stockholm.The local government authority has opened a crisis centre, offering support and information.The school had just opened after a summer break, and for some students it marked the first day at the senior high school.Several other schools and public buildings in Fagersta were also placed in lockdown after the alleged sword attack. The lockdown was later lifted. A student at the school, Abdulrahem Salmo, said he had seen a victim with a bloody stab wound in the arm."Then people called the police, and we just all ran from there because we were afraid," he told SVT.Local newspaper Fagersta-posten talked to Madelene Jansson outside the school, which her daughter had been attending."I first got a text message from her that somebody had been stabbed and that police were on the way. Then it all just went off. It feels unreal," she told the paper.Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said police were working intensively on the case and asked everyone to let them and the emergency services work undisturbed."Our thoughts are with all those affected," he posted on social media.The incident comes more than a year after a school shooting in Orebro, when a gunman killed 10 people before turning the weapon on himself, in the worst mass shooting in Swedish history.