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| Sweden sword attack: Masked man shot by police | Sweden sword attack: Masked man shot by police |
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| A masked man with a sword has killed a teacher and wounded at least two students at a school in Sweden before being shot by police. | |
| The attacker is being treated for gunshot wounds in a nearby hospital in the city of Trollhattan, police said. | |
| Niklas Claesson, a spokesman for the NAL hospital, said the student victims were "young but not kids". | |
| "Some of them have serious injuries and are being operated on. One person is deceased at the scene," he said. | "Some of them have serious injuries and are being operated on. One person is deceased at the scene," he said. |
| Police responded to an emergency call reporting an attack in the cafe area of the Kronan school, which has 400 students. Students were seen fleeing the building. | |
| "Shortly after this we received information that the assailant had been shot by police," the police said. | |
| A police spokesman said there was "considerable confusion" at the school. | |
| Reports of the number of people injured vary. Police initially said four students had been hurt, while hospital authorities later put the figure at two. | |
| Sweden's interior minister, Anders Ygeman, said on Twitter: "It is with sadness and dismay I received the news of the attack on the school in Trollhattan. My thoughts go to the victims and their families." | |
| Trollhattan is about 50 miles north of Gothenburg, Sweden's second-largest city. | |
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