STOCKHOLM – Two teachers were killed by a high school student in southern Sweden, police said on Tuesday.
The 18-year-old student was arrested at the scene on Monday in Malmö, Sweden’s third largest city. Police said the two victims were women in their fifties.
The suspect was previously unknown to police and had no criminal record, and police did not disclose how the teachers were killed. Motivation is not established.
“It is too early to comment on that,” Malmö police chief Petra Stenkola told a news conference.
It said officers arrived and found the suspect and two victims on the third floor of the Malmö Latin School in the city center 10 minutes after they were alerted, adding that the situation was then “under control.”
Stenkola did not confirm a report in Aftonbladet, which said the student himself called the authorities to say he had killed two people, laid down his weapons, and was on the third floor.
Stenkola said the police had made a “confiscation” and that the forensic examination “would allow us to better understand what happened,” adding that authorities had no information on any other injuries.
Police said they were called at 5:12 pm on Monday. Dozens of ambulances and patrol cars rushed to the school and armed police were seen entering the cordoned off building.
Students at the school, which has about 1,100 students, gathered to work on a musical and the students locked themselves inside the classroom.
Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said she had responded “with sadness and dismay” to the killings, according to Swedish news agency TT.
All classes were suspended on Tuesday and the school was closed.
The killings took place in a modern extension of the school, which was founded in 1406 when the Pope issued a letter of concession allowing it to be built and operated. The goal was originally to educate local youth about the Christian faith and the Latin language.
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