Thursday, October 22, 2015

Looks like it's time to ban swords and knives


Teacher, student killed in stabbing attack on Swedish school
Associated Press    
22, 2015. At least six people were injured, and the offender was shot by the police. (Bjorn Larsson Rosvall / TT via AP) SWEDEN OUT


A masked man wielding what looked like a sword stabbed four people Thursday at a school in southern Sweden, killing a teacher and a student before being shot dead by police, authorities said. One student thought he was playing a Halloween prank.
Students fled from Kronan school in Trollhattan, near Goteborg, Sweden's second-largest city, after the morning attack in a public cafe in the school's lobby, police said. The school has 400 students ranging from pre-school to high school.
Trollhattan, located 350 kilometers (220 miles) southwest of Stockholm, is a former industrial city of 56,000 people with a large immigrant community.
Police arrived at the school to find one male teacher already dead and three other people seriously wounded — two boys aged 11 and 15 and another male teacher, police spokesman Thomas Fuxborg told The Associated Press. Police fired two shots, one of which hit the attacker, he said.
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