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Man Attacks School in Sweden With Sword or Large Knife Man Attacks School in Sweden With Sword or Large Knife
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LONDON — A man armed with a sword or a large knife entered a school in western Sweden on Thursday morning and wounded five people before he was shot by the police, the authorities said. LONDON — A man armed with a sword or a large knife entered a school in western Sweden on Thursday morning, and killed one teacher and injured four others before he was shot by the police, the authorities said.
The Associated Press, citing local health officials, said one teacher had been killed in the attack and two students, 11 and 15, had been badly wounded. The shooting occurred in the cafe area of a school in Kronogarden, a working-class and heavily immigrant neighborhood in the struggling industrial city of Trollhattan, which is about 45 miles north of Sweden’s second-largest city, Goteborg.
The shooting occurred at a school in Kronogarden, a working-class and heavily immigrant neighborhood in Trollhattan, which is about 45 miles north of Sweden’s second-largest city, Goteborg. Lotta Abrahamsson, a spokeswoman for NAL hospital in Trollhattan, confirmed the casualties in a phone interview. “We have four patients at the hospital from the attack,” she said. “They are seriously wounded, and they have been operated on. One is around 11, and the other around 15. They have wounds from a sharp instrument that could be a knife. A teacher died at the scene. The attacker has also been operated on, and has gunshot wounds.”
Stefan Gustafsson, a spokesman for the regional police in western Sweden, said in a phone interview that the victims included students and teachers. Stefan Gustafsson, a spokesman for the regional police in western Sweden, said in a phone interview that the police had been called to the scene around 10:10 a.m. and shot the attacker. “This has been a very traumatic experience,” he said. “When police entered the school, the man was shot. Many people have gone to the hospital.”
He said that the police were called to the scene at 10:10 a.m. and shot the attacker. “This has been a very traumatic experience,” he said. “When police entered the school, the man was shot. Many people have gone to the hospital.”
According to the police, the attacker used the sword to chop or slice his victims. Police officers were summoned to the scene, and gunshots were heard inside the school. The newspaper Dagens Nyheter reported that the attacker died after being shot by the police.According to the police, the attacker used the sword to chop or slice his victims. Police officers were summoned to the scene, and gunshots were heard inside the school. The newspaper Dagens Nyheter reported that the attacker died after being shot by the police.
“This is a black day for Sweden,” Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said in a statement while on his way to Trollhattan. “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.”
The school was built in 2009 and enrolls more than 400 students from preschool through ninth grade, the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet reported.The school was built in 2009 and enrolls more than 400 students from preschool through ninth grade, the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet reported.
The newspaper Expressen quoted a news photographer on the scene, Stefan Bennhage, describing “complete chaos” and saying that one ambulance, responding to the scene, failed to stop and crashed into a school wall.The newspaper Expressen quoted a news photographer on the scene, Stefan Bennhage, describing “complete chaos” and saying that one ambulance, responding to the scene, failed to stop and crashed into a school wall.
The Local, an English-language newspaper, quoted a student as saying: “I was in a classroom with my class when one of my classmates’ sisters called her to warn her that there was a murderer at the school. So we locked the door to the classroom, but our teacher was still outside in the corridor. We wanted to warn him, so a few of us went outside and then I saw the murderer, he was wearing a mask and had a sword. Our teacher got stabbed. The murderer started chasing me. I ran into another classroom. If I had not run, I would have been murdered.”
Trollhattan is known in Sweden as the home of the main production plant for the carmaker Saab. Production at the factory was suspended from 2011 until 2013, while the troubled carmaker was taken over by a holding company, which announced plans to reinvent Saab as a manufacturer of electric vehicles.