Sweden sword attack: Two killed by masked attacker
 

The suspect, clad in black, apparently posed for photos with students ahead of the attack, in the western town of Trollhattan.

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Two further victims, a pupil and a teacher, are seriously injured. The attacker was shot by police and has died of his injuries. He was 21 and resident in Trollhattan, police said.

The king has said Sweden "is in shock".

Eyewitnesses described chaos at the school, with hundreds of students fleeing from the building screaming.

Police responded to an emergency call reporting an attack in the cafe area of the Kronan school, at around 10:10 local time (08:10 GMT) on Thursday.

One teacher died of his wounds at the scene.

Two male students, aged 11 and 15, and another teacher were rushed to hospital. One of the boys has since died of his injuries.

The attacker was also taken to hospital with gunshot wounds and has since died.

Police have searched the suspect's home.

A student at the school has provided a photo, apparently showing the attacker posing in the school corridor, ahead of the attacks.

It shows a man wearing black, with a helmet, a mask and a sword, possibly resembling a Nazi World War Two uniform.

Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet published an account (in Swedish) of a girl, who they refer to as Sara, who witnessed the attack.

The girl left her classroom and met two school friends who stood with a masked man holding a bloody knife, she said. He was playing "horrible, Halloween-type" music and did not speak, she said.

Her friends thought it was a joke and wanted to be photographed with the man, so Sara took a photo, Aftonbladet reports.

A teacher came out and asked the man what he was doing, the girl said.

"You're scaring the children, you can go," the teacher said.

The man just nodded then stabbed the teacher in the side with his knife, Sara said.

She and her friends ran. The man chased them but they managed to escape.

A similar account was given by a girl in the eighth grade to the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter.

She said she was in a maths lesson when they saw the masked man in the corridor.

"We thought it was a Halloween joke," she said. "He was completely dressed in black and had a mask."

The girl said her teacher went out into the corridor and tried to remove the mask, and it was then the man attacked and stabbed with the sword, she said.

Police spokesman Thomas Fuxborg said police fired two shots, one of which hit the attacker. No motive was given for the attack.

King Carl Gustav said in a statement that he had learned of the events in Trollhattan "with great dismay and sorrow".

Sweden's Prime Minister Stefan Lofven will travel to the town this afternoon. He said it was a "black day for Sweden".

"I think of the victims and their families, students and staff, and the whole of the affected community. No words can describe what they are going through right now. We must ensure that they receive all the support they need," he said.

Trollhattan is an industrial town in west Sweden, located around 75km (50 miles) north of Gothenburg, the nation's second largest city.

Sweden sword attack: Two killed by masked attacker - BBC News

Trollhattan is an industrial town

Sounds like a troll with a hat on

Sweden needs stricter sword control laws immediately!

Ban Swords NOW!

Ban masks.

he dindoofs noofins

To be fair, if he had an AR45 the body count would have been MUCH different.

I can't believe that Sweden would actually shoot someone who is simply randomly stabbing women and children! Sweden thinks it's completely wrong when Israel does the same thing...



Weird....







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Ha. I knew they pissed off the Muslim world, did not know they pissed off the Jewish world as well.

Seem to be making lots of friends lately!

Nice :thumbsup

Sounds like the lower east side of NYC.

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Yep, Sweden will be cranking up the bulldozers to demolish the homes where this guy came from.

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Now if everyone else was armed with swords this wouldn't have happened.

sword fight!

The most shocking part of this article is that there was a man working as a teacher at that school. Men are all predators unless proven otherwise. They should not ever be allowed access to children. Even if they are fathers they should be monitored. Better to keep them busy at their jobs so they are weighted down with huge child support payments while the mom neglects the kids and alienates them against their father. Most likely this guy in the mask who killed these people was from a father-less home and you see the positive results.

WTF, these rants make you sound like you got convicted of all that shit and are still mad.

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no shit!!! :helpme:helpme:helpme

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Not at all. Nothing in that post ever never happened to me. I also have never had cancer but I like to raise awareness of thing that cause cancer. Not every dumb human has to have something happen to them in order for them to try to make the world a better place. Many people are like that but not all.

being bullied by his peers never came to mind? columbine was just that

when you kill some guys with a knife it's because you're crazy as batshit but if you kill a few guys with a gun.. it's the guns fault :thumbsup

guns do not get lethal injection/life in prison

Banning swords is a good start but it has to go further, after all it isnt really his fault, its the fault of the combination of products, the sword and the darth vader mask, these darth vader masks are a scourge on society and cause otherwise normal people to take on psychopathic tendencies. They must be controlled, and just think about it any kid has ready access to these with no background check and no supervision

Its a mass murder just waiting to happen...

Who is "Sweden"? The 10 million people? The Parliament? The King? Who exactly are we talking about that think it's completely wrong to shoot someone that is actively killing women and children?

Sweden needs to radically change their Constitution posthaste to fix this sword problem.

you cannot punish the whole damn country because this happened. :2 cents::2 cents: the people that run things do bad things and are caught. should they ban politicians ability to move money? because some got got taking it?

It takes a special kind of desperation to draw comparisons to gun control views when shit like this happens. Especially when it could have been far worse if there were a handgun involved. No laws can stop people from being crazy, the only thing you can help is limit the access of their tools to do it.

you think i desperately care that Canadians (and other foreigners) think the USA should change our Constitution to fit their view re: guns?

come on now. perhaps a more plausible explanation would be that this is gfy and i'm a smartass.

Sorry, I should have said, the Swedish government and the Swedish media... My bad.




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Also the male teacher obviously tried to step up and save the lives of the students and other teachers. This is patriarchy in its worst form. How dare that man be so sexist that he thinks the "weak" females need to be protected by him. This is worse than "mansplaining" and "manspreading"

It's perfectly Jewish to ignore where the acts of palistinians are coming from...
Jews need to stop crying about things that happend to them in the past and need to take responsability for their actions today...

Fucking crybabies:

So much win in here, in fact, I'll go to Sweden to hunt with swords this whole weekend with the family. Perhaps we'll find trolls, perhaps we'll find other sword-sliners :thumbsup

But truth be told, I am hoping to find some baby-giraffes we can butcher in front of the kids, show them what real life is like and all that. Eat em raw, wear their skin and dance around.

A real family get togehter on neutral ground :pimp

It is hardly surprising that there will be a violent reaction from time to time from the people of the countries being invaded by millions of people who have or choose to have little ability to fit in.

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An image of outside the school in the aftermath.
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