Student is charged with murder after sword rampage at Swedish school left one girl dead and three hurt

See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred Source Published: 18:38 EDT, 23 August 2026 | Updated: 19:40 EDT, 23 August 2026 An 18-year-old student has been charged with murder after a sword rampage at a Swedish school left one girl dead and three hurt. Liam Nebel, 18, was charged on Sunday afternoon after an 'attacker with a sword' stormed Brinell School in Fagersta on Friday, just days after classes had started. The small town has a population of 12,000 and is located 100 miles northwest of Stockholm. Nebel had an access card to enter the school premises because he was a student at the school, the headmaster told local radio.He was allegedly dressed like Anton Lundin Pettersson, the sword-wielding attacker, who killed a pupil and a teacher in a similar assault in Trollhättan in 2015, local media reported. Local police said they did not know what the motive was for the attack but that it had no reason to believe that others were involved. The victim of the fatal sword attack was a 17-year-old girl, who was found dead inside the school. Liam Nebel, 18, was charged on Sunday afternoon after an 'attacker with a sword' stormed Brinell School in Fagersta on Friday, just days after classes had started Police special forces work at the scene where an attacker with a sword wounded several people at a high school in Fagersta, central Sweden Police and rescue services on site with a major operation at BrinellskolanTwo teenage boys were severely injured while a third has since been discharged from hospital, according to the Swedish news agency TT.Police are investigating a picture of a sword posted to a TikTok account 20 minutes before the attack. The image appeared to have been taken in the bathrooms at the school, according to the Dagens Nyheter newspaper. The TikTok account had posted scores videos paying tribute to mass murderers, such as neo-Nazi Anders Behring Breivik, who in 2011 massacred 77 people in Norway.'The investigators are looking into various online communities which might have egged on the suspect to carry out the attack,' a police source told Reuters. The school had just reopened after school holidays, and for some students, the attack took place on their first day. It took 10 minutes for police to arrive at the school after the alarm was raised.Police rushed into the school and shot at the attacker but did not hit him but managed to stop and detain him. The victim of the fatal sword attack was a 17-year-old girl, who was found dead inside the school Local police said they did not know what the motive was for the attack but tat it had no reason to believe that others were involved Police are investigating a picture of a sword posted to a TikTok account 20 minutes before the attack'First it was just a regular day really. But then...I saw a guy all covered in blood, at least down his back anyway. Then I saw the police and they flooded in,' one Brinell student, Nellie, said alongside her mother Agnes Strandberg after a five-hour lockdown at the school.Abdulrahem Salmo, who witnessed the attack, told SVT: 'He [the attacker] came behind my friend's back and stabbed him in the arm, and we saw he had blood all over his arm. He told us to ring the police. Some people did, then we ran from there because we were scared.' He said that it was his first week at the school. On Friday, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson described the attack as a 'serious incident,' and said 'we do not know what lies behind the act, but we know that police are working very intensively'.