The victim of a deadly sword attack at a Swedish high school was a 17-year-old girl, police have confirmed. An 18-year-old man armed with a sword unleashed his violent rampage at the Brinell School in Fagersta, northwest of Stockholm on Friday, just days after the school had resumed from its summer break. 'The person killed in this incident is a young 17-year-old female. Her family has been informed,' police said on their website without giving any other identity details.Minnea, a Brinell student who went to the school to honour the victims on Saturday, told the SVT broadcaster: 'It's terrible to think that someone you sat at the same table with, someone you talked to, is suddenly dead.' Two boys, a 12-year-old and a 17-year-old, were seriously injured, with one requiring emergency surgery. A third person was also wounded, but police did not give any details on them. Police said the suspect had been arrested after being shot at by officers, and that the case was being investigated as murder and attempted murder. The alleged perpetrator was not injured during his arrest. Police special forces and other members of the emergency services work at the scene where an attacker with a sword killed one person and wounded several people at a high school in Fagersta, central Sweden on August 21, 2026 Police today confirmed a 17-year-old girl had died. Pictured: Emergency services at the scene The rampage took place at The Brinell School in Fagersta. Pictured: The exterior of the Swedish high school where the attack took place Local police chief Tommy Alriksson told reporters on Friday that investigators were seeking a motive for the attack; however, few details have emerged about the perpetrator. SVT reported that the suspected attacker had a previous assault conviction and wore a helmet and carried a sword.Media said a TikTok account belonging to the teen was being investigated. The account has been taken down.AFP viewed the account before it was taken down, and it had several videos referencing school attacks. The last update showed a photo of a sword.'The police investigation is proceeding at full speed,' police added in their statement on Saturday.'Numerous investigative measures have been carried out, and inquiries are continuing in order to establish the sequence of events as precisely as possible.'Nellie Strandberg, a 16-year-old Brinell student, said she was on her way to the school's library when the assailant entered the institution.'We were just going to collect some things and get ready for Monday. Then I saw a guy who's bloody all down his back,' she told Dagens Nyheter newspaper. istersson (L) and Social Democratic Party leader Magdalena Andersson visit the makeshift memorial, one day after an attack carried out by a man with a sword in Fagersta, Sweden, 22 August 2026 Fagersta residents leave flowers and candles at a makeshift memorial outside the schoolOn Saturday morning, around 70 people gathered at a memorial site, carrying flowers and lighting candles.Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, who visited the site on Saturday, expressed solidarity with the families affected by the attack and with those impacted by previous school attacks in Sweden.'What must never happen has happened again,' Kristersson said.Kristersson was joined in Fagersta by Magdalena Andersson, leader of the main opposition Social Democrats. With Sweden's parliamentary election due in September, political parties suspended campaign events on Saturday. Kristersson also invited all party leaders to a meeting to discuss the progress of the investigation.Sweden has suffered other attacks at educational institutions. In February 2025, a 35-year-old man shot 10 people at an adult education centre in Örebro, leading the government to propose tougher gun laws. It is considered ot be the worst mass shooting in the country's history. In March 2022, an 18-year-old student stabbed two teachers to death at a secondary school in the southern city of Malmo.In 2015, a 21-year-old local man rampaged through a school in the southern industrial city of Trollhättan, stabbing three people to death before being fatally shot by police.Authorities called it a racist hate crime, saying he methodically selected dark-skinned victims at Trollhattan’s Kronan school, where most students are foreign-born.