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STOCKHOLM: Swedish police revealed that a 17-year-old student was the fatal victim of a sword attack at a high school where widespread tributes were paid to her on Saturday.
Flowers and candles were left outside the Brinell school in Fagersta where Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and opposition leader Magdalena Andersson went on Saturday morning to honour the dead student and three wounded victims.
The 18-year-old attacker entered the school on Friday afternoon — just days after the school in the town of 13,000 people had returned from its summer break. He has since been detained by police.
“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.
