‘Absolutely terrible’: two women dead after violent incident at Malmö school

No reports of gunfire, police say, as man aged 18 arrested on suspicion of murder

Two women died after being stabbed at a high school in southern Sweden on Monday, police said, adding that an 18-year-old student had been arrested.

The two women, both in their 50s, were employees of the school, the police said in a statement following the attack at Malmo latinskola, a secondary school in the centre of Malmo, the country's third largest city.