LATEST: Swedish police name sword attack victim as 17-year-old student
The person killed in a sword attack in a Swedish high school was a 17-year-old female student, police said on Saturday.

A Stockholm court on Wednesday jailed a 19-year-old for nearly eight years for having plotted to attack a culture festival on behalf of the Islamic State..
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The person killed in a sword attack in a Swedish high school was a 17-year-old female student, police said on Saturday.
Two young Swedes were sentenced to jail terms on Tuesday for throwing grenades at Israel's embassy in Denmark over a year ago.
An 18-year-old man on trial for plotting a terrorist attack admitted on Tuesday to planning a bombing at a large cultural festival in Stockholm, his lawyer said.
Swedish prosecutors charged an 18-year-old on Thursday for planning a "serious terrorist attack" on a cultural festival in Stockholm in the name of the Islamic State group.
The Swedish Prosecution Authority said Tuesday it intended to charge an 18-year-old man for planning a terrorist act in Stockholm on behalf of the Islamic State group.
A 78-year-old British widow who has lived in Sweden for 21 years is fighting a deportation order after the Migration Agency said her post-Brexit application to stay had been submitted too late, The Guardian has reported
The infamous Swedish criminal Jonas Falk has been jailed for over nine years for smuggling over two tonnes of cocaine from South America, in the latest in a long series of convictions.
A Swedish court on Friday remanded a 20-year-old man in custody as the country's intelligence service said he was suspected of participating in a group linked to far-right extremism.
A 25-year-old woman was found dead over the weekend after a search in Salem, southwest of Stockholm. A 26-year-old man, with previous convictions has been detained on suspicion of murder.
Sweden's prime minister Ulf Kristersson is set to visit the city of Gävle on Monday, as a 14-year-old boy is held on suspicion of shooting and injuring six people early on Saturday morning.
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